An interview with Barbara Demick, author of the new book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. The book tells the heartbreaking story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption.

"I can’t believe we’re a part of it … our tiny little ten person Idaho brand was represented at the Supreme Court.”

Shorter days mean more nighttime driving — and across the Mountain West, that’s leading to a surge in collisions with wildlife.

In failing to fully fund the food assistance program that covers 42 million low-income Americans, the judge said the government "failed to consider the harms" to people who rely on the benefits.

Holiday travel can already be stressful. Here's how a prolonged government shutdown might make things even harder and whether you should travel at all.

Many low-income families in Idaho are facing uncertain times, as funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, have been paused and only partially restored temporarily amidst a federal government shutdown. Students in Boise decided to host a benefit concert at a popular local music venue to support the Idaho Foodbank.

Idaho’s legislative budget writers are facing significant increases in routine expenses as they prepare for the upcoming session beginning in January.

Boise City Council incumbents kept their seats and an open-space levy gets overwhelming support in the capital city. Boise State Public Radio rounds up the 2025 Idaho election results.

The Boise Airport is organizing a community food drive to help federal employees and airport staff impacted by the shutdown and SNAP food benefits delays.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly declined the entirety of its annual $1.5 million federal Title X funding, leaving patients statewide without free and low-cost contraception and reproductive health care services from a key family planning program.

Wildfires have grown substantially in size in recent decades, but they’re also burning much more intensely, with high severity areas growing much faster than fires overall. New research projects additional significant jumps in the scale of wildfires that kill most trees unless major management measures - like prescribed fire - are carried out.

Opponents argue that transmission line co-owner PacifiCorp's plan to serve a single industrial customer invalidates eminent domain authority because the energy will not be used for the broader public good. Idaho Power says it still plans to use its share of megawatts to serve traditional residential and commercial customers.