Inside, lawmakers were at work conducting the state’s business, but outside, the steps of the Idaho State Capitol were occupied only by the occasional tourist or black-coated legislator on the way to lunch or a meeting. It was Jan. 18—Martin Luther King, Jr., Day—and all was quiet.
The Downtown Boise Association has postponed the Alive After Five Summer Concert series and the Father’s Day Car Show until the summer of 2022. “As disappointing as it is to postpone Alive After Five, Downtown Boise Association is choosing to do that to prioritize the health and safety of ou…
This year, Zoo Boise is offering a bunch of different ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Eighty-four nations have signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, but the U.S. isn’t among them. On Friday, Jan. 22, Amy O’Brien of the Snake River Alliance will join anti-nuclear activists across the Gem State to ask, “why not?”
Inside, lawmakers were at work conducting the state’s business, but outside, the steps of the Idaho State Capitol were occupied only by the occasional tourist or black-coated legislator on the way to lunch or a meeting. It was Jan. 18—Martin Luther King, Jr., Day—and all was quiet.
On a brilliant Sunday afternoon, half a dozen high school students gathered in the front yard of a North End home, spread a yellow sheet over a backyard table and started brainstorming slogans and messages for their banner.
In the now-notorious photo, a man in a black jacket and stocking cap with a red stripe sits in the seat usually reserved for the vice president of the United States. His right arm is raised in a fist-pump. One member of an insurrectionary mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, his name…
Standing amid a forest of American, Gadsden and Trump 2020 flags on the steps of the Idaho State Capitol, the emcee, Trina Westberg of the Trump booster group MAGA Girls, made a direct plea to one of the few remaining people she believed could keep President Donald Trump in office.
Let’s start with a cliché dump: “I can’t believe we made it through this year.” “It’s time to start making your list of New Year’s resolutions.” “This year will be different.” Hold on a second. This year has been different. As I write this, more than 330,000 Americans have died from a diseas…
For months, it has been dark at Boise Contemporary Theater, and summer might as well have never come at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Bands have not hit the stages at The Olympic, the Knitting Factory or Neurolux. For as long as those venues have been closed or operated at a curtailed capa…
For just shy of 130 years, the mascot of Pocatello High School was the Indians, but after long talks within the district and with local Native tribes, the Pocatello-Chubbuck School District retired it. On Dec. 15, the school district announced it had found a new mascot: Thunder.
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