Student athletes have had it rough in 2020, with events and games being cancelled or postponed due to the global pandemic. This strain was only compounded when California announced that it would ban state-funded travel to Idaho beginning on Wednesday July 1, which will only add to the disrup…
Student athletes have had it rough in 2020, with events and games being cancelled or postponed due to the global pandemic. This strain was only compounded when California announced that it would ban state-funded travel to Idaho beginning on Wednesday July 1, which will only add to the disrup…
In the town of Driggs, big changes are in the works regarding the local high school’s controversial mascot. On June 12, over a year after the school board was first approached to change the mascot that had symbolized the school for decades, Teton High School students voted that they would no…
A number of civil rights organizations, sports groups and individual athletes sent letters on June 10 requesting that the NCAA move the 2021 men’s basketball championship out of Idaho.
Idaho is set to enter the fourth and final stage of the reopening of its economy on Saturday, June 13—but just barely—, Gov. Brad Little announced the morning of June 11.
Thousands of unemployed Idahoans are looking to the Idaho Department of Labor for help and many are feeling scared, forgotten and angry. Some of them have been waiting months for benefits and could lose their cars and housing.
On June 5, Gov. Brad Little announced that the state will offer cash back incentives for people that return to work.
On June 1, the Federal District Court for the State of Idaho gave state officials a firm reminder that it cannot enforce one of two transphobic laws it passed during the 2020 legislative session. The court’s memo came just a month before the enforceability of a law that bars transgender peop…
An estimated 6,000 people came to support Idaho’s Black community Tuesday evening—despite a pandemic. All 50 states have participated in protests and vigils for the slaying of George Floyd.
It has been an unusually soggy spring for southwestern Idaho. On May 20, Boise saw a record amount of maximum daily rainfall. Now, the mosquito control programs in Ada, Canyon Gem and Payette counties are reminding the public to drain standing water around their homes.
No one knows how many people died in Idaho from the 1918 influenza pandemic, but retired public health official Dr. Ginger Floerchinger-Franks thinks she may have a pretty good idea. She has been researching the pandemic for over five years to write a book, and was shocked to discover how ma…
