BOISE — The Idaho Water Resources Board has approved a contract with the Bureau of Reclamation to move forward with designing and constructing a proposed 6-foot raise to Anderson Ranch Dam.

BOISE — After he was sentenced to 40 hours of community service for trespassing at the Idaho Capitol in 2020, gubernatorial hopeful Ammon Bundy told a court last week that he’s already completed 1,621 hours of public service through what appear to be campaign activities.

Morgan Wallen, the country singer who drew criticism for saying the N-word earlier this year, announced his upcoming tour recently with a stop in Nampa.

BOISE — Next week, Idaho businesses will receive notices of an unemployment insurance tax increase, but if Gov. Brad Little has his way, lawmakers will reverse that when they return to town in January for the legislative session.

A section of upper Eighth Street in the Boise Foothills closed for the season Wednesday as part of an effort to reduce road damage in the wet and snowy months.

A Saltzer Health urgent care clinic in Nampa began offering COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatments on Wednesday.

The Treasure Valley is experiencing a weak inversion, with impacts to air quality expected to last through the end of the week.

A third person has been arrested for the murder of Luis Garcia.

BOISE — Both co-chairmanships of the joint committee that sets the state budget will now be held by lawmakers from Nampa, after Sen. Jeff Agenbroad, R-Nampa, was appointed to the Senate co-chairmanship on Tuesday.

CALDWELL — After 24 years, and a month of uncertainty leading up to a runoff election, Caldwell will have a new mayor. Jarom Wagoner routed John McGee in Tuesday’s runoff.

BOISE — Health care experts in Boise gathered virtually Tuesday to discuss the emerging omicron variant of COVID-19.

Decades after a woman and her nephew were murdered in a robbery at a remote cabin near McCall, lawyers are urging the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole to spare the life of the man responsible.

The Boise Police Department arrested a suspect allegedly involved in a robbery on Tuesday that caused East Junior High School and a nearby private school to go into lockdown as a precautionary measure.

The new legislative districts map that Idaho’s bipartisan redistricting commission created and approved represents an improvement over how Meridian is currently divided, Mayor Robert Simison said.

BOISE — The Idaho governor’s housing stipend will remain $54,600 per year, at least until next year.

Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which bars transgender women and girls from competing on collegiate and K-12 women’s and girls sports teams, hasn’t been active for over a year while it’s being challenged in court. Now, the law’s defenders are pushing a federal district court to unfre…

Scott Yenor, a political science professor at Boise State University, is facing backlash on social media for statements made in his speech in October at the annual National Conservatism Conference.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced last week that the Nampa Police Department was awarded a $250,000 grant for the agency to hire more full-time officers.

CALDWELL — Caldwell’s mayoral runoff election will take place on Tuesday.

NAMPA — When the Amalgamated Sugar factory, which processes sugarbeets into sugar, opened in Nampa in 1942, the factory was well outside of city limits. Today, though many local residents drive by the factory on Northside Boulevard or Karcher Road, company officials are consciously working o…

Over the summer, a Meridian resident presented a black PowerPoint with the words “GUARDING OUR TREASURE” to the Meridian City Council. His goal: “REJECT THE OASIS,” a planned nightclub at 3085 E. Ustick Road.

Idaho State Highway 55 between Smiths Ferry and Round Valley Road will remain closed another 7-10 days, depending on weather, according to the Idaho Transportation Department. The highway was originally slated to be closed through Monday because of a rockslide, but that closure has been extended.

A few weeks after Idaho’s first-ever declaration of crisis standards of care, Gov. Brad Little took a call from Gloria, a woman in Kimberly.

BOISE — When Gov. Brad Little appointed Carrie Semmelroth of Boise to the Idaho Senate last week, he departed from a tradition followed by his GOP predecessor of yielding to the minority party on their priority picks for appointees.

A survey commissioned by a Boise-based institute has found that a sizable minority of Mountain West residents think violence is justified when the government fails its people.

CALDWELL — People from around the Treasure Valley flocked to the Indian Creek Plaza Ice Skating Ribbon and Rink for a post-Thanksgiving skate on Friday.

BOISE — Jury trials can restart Dec. 6 in Idaho courts — but only in a little over half of Idaho’s 44 counties.

This story was originally published on KTVB.com on Nov. 26, 2021.

The following story was originally posted on Nov. 25, 2021 on KTVB.com.

Carrie Semmelroth has been appointed to the Idaho Senate.

BOISE — Interfaith Sanctuary’s State Street homeless shelter permit application will have a second Planning and Zoning Commission hearing next month, at which time commissioners will hear public comments.

BOISE — The two legal challenges to Idaho’s new legislative redistricting plan that have been filed in the Idaho Supreme Court thus far both focus on the fact that the plan splits eight counties, arguing that that’s unconstitutional because it would be possible to split just seven.

MANKATO, Minnesota — Charlie Kirk stood 80 miles from where George Floyd was murdered, faced an overwhelmingly white audience, and declared he was going to say things “no one dares say out loud.”