CALDWELL — The city of Caldwell voted Monday to amend its building moratorium and begin allowing the development application process to resume. It’s a big step toward the end of the moratorium, which has been in place since May.

BOISE — Hanzo, a mostly white dog with one eye, had his forever home until his owner became homeless. He was surrendered to the Idaho Humane Society on July 20. The same thing happened with Harlow and Taitai, two 9 1/2-year-old cats surrendered to Pet Haven Cat Adoption Center.

FRUITLAND (AP) — Searchers have scoured miles of land in rural western Idaho, drained canals and combed over security footage for the past week, but authorities said a 5-year-old boy who was last seen July 27 is still missing.

BOISE — Health officials and Boise Mayor Lauren McLean urged the public to get vaccinated and wear masks indoors to stop the spread of the delta variant of COVID-19 at a virtual press conference Wednesday.

A Canyon County resident over age 50 has been confirmed as suffering from the dangerous, neuroinvasive form of West Nile Virus, and officials are warning Treasure Valley residents to drain standing water left from recent rains to avoid breeding mosquitoes that can carry the virus.

BOISE — A planned industrial park and mixed use development south of the Boise Airport will be 520 acres when completed, the developers announced Wednesday.

BOISE — An Idaho woman has been charged with four misdemeanors after prosecutors said she participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by loyalists of then-President Donald Trump.

June Daugherty set the bar high for the Boise State women’s basketball team, leading the Broncos to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1994.

U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore has temporarily suspended a strategy that encourages some lightning-caused fires to play a natural role in the environment and clamped down on the use of prescribed fire.

BOISE — Treasure Valley educational programs received tens of thousands in grants from the Idaho Community Foundation.

CALDWELL — The Canyon County Board of Commissioners denied the application for a rezone on a parcel south of Lake Lowell near where 10 homes’ wells went dry last month. Monday's hearing had been continued from July 26 to allow the commissioners additional time to review the information assoc…

BOISE — Residents of Boise’s North End have petitioned a court to intervene in a monthslong neighborhood association dispute that led to a recall attempt on the majority of the association’s board of directors.

BOISE — The Boise School District Board of Trustees unanimously passed a motion to make masks mandatory in schools during a special meeting Tuesday to discuss the district’s pandemic plan for the coming school year, reversing a decision from a July 12 meeting that made masks optional.

BOISE — In order for schools to run smooth this year, Gov. Brad Little believes more Idahoans need to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

BOISE — The Idaho House Ethics Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to censure Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, for conduct unbecoming a member of the Idaho House of Representatives, and to recommend that she lose her seat on the House Commerce & Human Resources Committee.

BOISE — Jesse Tree will be holding rental assistance “pop-up” events this summer and fall to assist renters after the national eviction moratorium expired over the weekend.

NAMPA — As the coronavirus and the delta variant spread throughout Idaho and the Treasure Valley, cities are taking differing approaches to the pandemic.

BOISE — More than 16 months after the novel coronavirus pandemic first disrupted the everyday lives of Idahoans, beloved local events are being canceled as a fourth wave of infections takes hold in the United States.

BOISE — July was the warmest month on record for Boise and it could have been even warmer if not for the wildfire smoke decreasing the amount of sunshine, according to the National Weather Service in Boise.

MERIDIAN — Meridian City Councilman Luke Cavener announced his bid for re-election Monday night on Facebook Live.

CALDWELL — The Canyon County board of commissioners approved the tentative budget for fiscal year 2022 on Monday.

BOISE — Embattled Idaho state Rep. Priscilla Giddings, who is running for lieutenant governor, engaged in a testy two-hour exchange with the House Ethics Committee on Monday, bristling at most of the questions she was asked and terming them “irrelevant” while also continuing to “absolutely” …

CALDWELL — A feedlot in Wilder will gain permission to expand from 6,000 head of cattle to 12,000. Though unofficial until paperwork is signed, the Canyon County commissioners unanimously voted Monday afternoon that they will do so.

NAMPA — Jay Pickett, a soap opera actor and producer of Western films set in his home state of Idaho, died July 30. He was 60.

The wildfire burning in the Boise National Forest was 70% contained as of Sunday morning, according to a news release from the Boise National Forest Service.

Idaho will begin testing a stash of COVID-19 samples gathered over the past several months under a new grant-funded project to aid global research into coronavirus variants.

The Boise Police Department is searching for a missing, endangered teen who disappeared over the weekend.

IDAHO FALLS — Vaccination rates in eastern and southeastern Idaho hospitals are higher than among the general population. But rates still aren’t as high as hospital leaders would like.

BOISE — When the Idaho House formally reprimanded then-Rep. Ray Infanger, R-Salmon, for an ethics violation in 1990, reports said it was the first time such a thing had occurred in the Idaho Legislature in at least a quarter-century.

BOISE — As home prices in the Treasure Valley have risen sharply in recent years, so has the number of homes sold for $1 million or more.

MERIDIAN — Miranda Carson’s job is to be a data analyst, not a fortune teller.

BOISE — Though there’s still more than six months before candidates can formally file, the GOP primary for governor next year has gained yet another hopeful and is now up to at least eight, with the entry of current Bonner County Commissioner Steven Bradshaw.

NAMPA — Lines of vehicles stretched back from gas pumps at Costco in Nampa on July 30 as drivers queued up for marginally less expensive gas — $3.799 for regular unleaded. Most stations in town were selling regular unleaded for $3.89 a gallon, according to gasbuddy.com.

BOISE — Idaho Lt. Gov Janice McGeachin took to Twitter on Thursday to complain that Gov. Brad Little briefly left the state, but didn’t authorize her to act as governor in his absence.

On Friday evening, authorities discovered the body of a Gem County senior who had been missing since Wednesday.

BOISE — Idaho could fund a billion dollars worth of upgrades to deteriorating local sewer and drinking water systems across the state. It could extend broadband connectivity everywhere. It could support nursing homes, behavioral health care, senior meals, public health or child care. It coul…