ID Government

Mayor of Coeur d'Alene Jim Hammond resigned, citing his ongoing battle with cancer and his desire to spend his remaining time with family.

On Thursday morning, four protesters sat in lawn chairs at the Idaho Capitol Annex amid the sweltering heat. Nine tents, some with pro-Palestine messages written on them, stood in the grass. A chalkboard said it was day 70 of the people’s liberated university, the name for the demonstration.

A ballot initiative to end Idaho’s closed primary elections and create a ranked-choice voting system for the general election has enough signatures to appear on the ballot for the Nov. 5 general election, the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office announced Wednesday.

The Coeur d’Alene City Council, with approval from the mayor, unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday night that makes hateful acts illegal, following a string of recent high-profile incidents in the city.

Idaho residents should be prepared for some new take laws taking effect Monday. A proposed bill must pass through the Idaho House and Senate before being signed into law by Gov. Brad Little, but unless it contains an emergency clause or specific date of enactment, it comes into effect at the beginning of July. State legislators this year approved a slew of new laws to be implemented Monday, ...

Forty-eight years ago, when Rakesh Mohan moved from India to the United States, he sought out to be a chemist.

SANDPOINT – The ultrasound in February that found a mass growing in her uterus and abnormally thick uterine lining brought Jonell Anderson more than anxiety over diagnosis and treatment.

For the first time in seven years, Idaho has a new National Guard commanding general.

In 1999, John and Tina Hough stayed at the historic bed-and-breakfast in Coeur d'Alene that was converted out of a school named for a previous visit by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon was re-elected to a second two-year term at North Idaho College during the final day of the 2024 Republican State Convention.

Conflict over the state’s sale of the Idaho Transportation Department’s 44-acre campus in Boise continued in new legal filings Friday, when the Attorney General’s Office asked that the Board of Examiners retract previous statements made by its attorneys and that the board be removed from the case.

Clutching handwritten notes on yellow sheets of paper, Idaho state Sen. James Ruchti, D-Pocatello, stood up to debate against a bill. The proposal before lawmakers, a month into the legislative session, would have limited the damage pesticide manufacturers faced from thousands of lawsuits. Those manufacturers included Bayer, an agrochemical giant and major employer in eastern Idaho.

Dr. Harmony Schroeder figured she had 10 more years of seeing patients and delivering babies at OGA Women’s Health Clinic in Meridian before she retired and moved to McCall, where she sees patients a few times a month. But that changed two years ago. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in summer 2022 and handed abortion regulations back to the states, Schroeder and many other ...