Perpetua commences early construction at Stibnite gold project in Idaho  

Perpetua Resources has announced the start of early works construction at the Stibnite gold project in Valley County, central Idaho, US. The news comes after the company successfully secured $139m in financial assurance and received confirmation...

How Chartwells Higher Education boosted concessions sales at Boise State

Boise State University Broncos fans are enjoying new menu items and quicker lines at Albertsons Stadium thanks to changes made by foodservice provider Chartwells Higher Education. Chartwells took over the foodservice contract for the Boise, Idaho...

Trump’s policies are devastating Idaho farmers

By Lauren Necochea and Sally Toone Reader Contributors Family farms built Idaho and grew to feed the world, but they’re being pushed to the breaking point. President Donald Trump promised to fight for America’s farmers, to bring jobs back, boost...

Commentary | Brenna Galdenzi: Don't be lulled by Fish & Wildlife's whitewashing of trapping

The recreational trapping season in Vermont begins on October 25 and runs through March 31, 2026. This includes the use of baited steel-jawed leghold traps and body-crushing kill traps, as well as underwater cage traps that drown multiple animals...

La Niña to bring cold, wet winter to Idaho County, Northern Rockies

The 2025–26 winter is shaping up to be colder and wetter than normal across the Northern Rockies — including north-central Idaho — as a developing La Niña pattern takes hold, according to the National Weather Service office in Missoula....

Closed burning season ends for Idaho

“Closed fire season,” the five months of the year when state burn permits are legally required in Idaho, ended Monday, Oct. 20. Burn permits are normally required from May 10 through Oct. 20 each year and are issued by the Idaho Department of...

Six Idaho Educators To Be Honored With 2025 Vandal Outstanding Educator Award

MOSCOW, Idaho — University of Idaho’s College of Education, Health and Human Sciences (EHHS) is proud to announce the 2025 Vandal Outstanding Educator Award winners. Nominated by U of I students, these K-12 educators have made a lasting impact,...

Forging Bonds: Singapore Air Force trains alongside American Airmen in Idaho desert skies

MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, IDAHO, UNITED STATES 10.22.2025 MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, Idaho — The skies above Idaho came to life this September as the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) launched Exercise Forging Sabre 2025 — an...

An Idaho Courtyard Where Hotel Guests (and Sheep) Can Mingle

By Timothy A. Schuler In the 1930s, a publicist working for a resort developer nicknamed Idaho’s Wood River basin “Sun Valley” and coined the tagline “Winter sports under a summer sun.” At 5,750 feet above sea level, the alpine valley is...

KB Home Announces the Grand Opening of Its Newest Community in Highly Desirable Kuna, Idaho

KUNA, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 22, 2025-- KB Home (NYSE: KBH), one of the largest and most trusted homebuilders in the U.S., today announced the grand opening of Journeys End, a new-home community in highly desirable Kuna, Idaho. Just 20...

Idaho’s 2026 Health Insurance Rates Hold Steady Amid Rising Costs Elsewhere

Here’s the good news for Idaho residents shopping for health insurance in 2026. Your premiums won’t see the jaw-dropping hikes that many other states are grappling with. A modest rate increase? Sure. But compared to double digits in other places?...

Local environmental group sues Forest Service

“Together, these projects will disrupt and degrade wildlife habitat, including old growth forests that will not return for at least a century, and undermine habitat security necessary for the recovery of the threatened grizzly bear,” lawyers for...

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Three women become choked up as they deliver...

Planned Trump staffing cuts loom over National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife, Land Management

Cuts to the federal agencies that manage national parks, science and public lands are expected to result in firings across the West, Southeast and Great Lakes, among other places, Trump administration plans reveal. In a court filing this week, the...

Breakfast Series final discussion of 2025 comes to an end with look outside of Idaho

For many Idaho businesses, the state’s borders are expanding as rapidly as its population. At a Glance: Idaho exports 60% of U.S. wheat and leads the nation in barley production. Wine, dairy, and hops industries are driving international market...

Idaho can’t afford voucher subsidies for the rich

Idaho’s public schools are a historic place of pride in Idaho’s growth and cultural development. They continue to anchor communities’ social structures by providing actual places that signify community unity. Beyond being just places of learning,...

Oregon has ‘pretty good’ water year in contrast to Washington, Idaho

Published 8:16 am Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Oregon didn’t face many water supply problems this water year — which runs from October through September — despite a dry spring progressing into drought during summer for much of the state. “The impacts...

Idaho hunters asked to comment on slate of new rules

“We would like to try it out on some species that are a little easier to manage, like turkeys,” she said. Even if the rule is approved by the commission and the Legislature, Worthington said the department and commission would have to amend other...

Why This Charming Idaho Mountain Town Should Be the Next Hallmark Movie Location

Having lived and traveled all around Idaho, I have visited many of its charming mountain towns. Each one has something to offer, but there is one that has always captured my attention. It’s a town that’s filled with natural beauty, community...

New Idaho webpage showcases immigrants’ mugshots

The office of Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Friday announced a new webpage as part of the state’s “Operation No Return” initiative, in which immigrants with illegal statuses who were convicted of serious crimes are transferred from county jails into...