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An attempt by far-right lawmakers Sept. 15 to form a quorum at the Statehouse that they say would have allowed them to force the Legislature to reconvene and pass laws to prohibit vaccine mandates fizzled when only 16 of the ...

Northern Idaho has a long and deep streak of anti-government activism that has confounded attempts to battle a COVID-19 outbreak overwhelming hospitals in the deeply conservative region. A deadly 1992 standoff with federal agents near the Canadian border helped spark ...

President Joe Biden is promoting his administration’s use of a wartime law to aid in wildfire preparedness Monday during a Western swing in which he’s surveying damage in California and meeting with fire officials in Idaho. The administration activated the ...

The Idaho commission charged with redrawing the state’s legislative and congressional districts will hold public hearings across the state over the next several weeks.  The hearings — one in each region and another online — will allow the commission to ...

Idaho’s bipartisan redistricting commission wrapped up its first three days of meetings with commissioners spending additional time training with the software they will use to redraw the state’s political boundaries.   The commission didn’t take any votes or any action Sept. 3.   ...

U.S. wildfire managers have started shifting from seasonal to full-time firefighting crews to deal with what has become a year-round wildfire season as climate change has made the American West warmer and drier. The crews also could remove brush and other hazardous ...

At nearly every community meeting on firefighting efforts in the U.S. West, residents want to know why crews don’t simply put out the flames to save their homes and the valuable forests surrounding them. It’s not that simple, wildfire managers ...

LEWISTON (AP) — Students suffered significant academic setbacks during the coronavirus pandemic, especially those in school districts that used hybrid or online learning models, according to two studies.  The chief researcher for the Idaho State Board of Education presented the ...

  A proposed energy project in south-central Idaho would more than double the amount of wind energy produced in the state, and U.S. officials said that they are taking comments on the plan. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ...

BOISE (AP) — An investment firm whose land-swap proposal in the McCall area was rejected by state land managers sent a letter Aug. 14 to Gov. Brad Little and other state officials seeking to reverse the decision. Trident Investments contests ...