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Idaho’s OB-GYN Exodus Throws Women in Rural Towns Into a Care Void
SANDPOINT, Idaho — 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 Anderson and other patients in this rural community who need gynecological care, stress over discovering an illness is...
Two Idaho students receive 'Scholarship for Human Rights' from Eve Devitt Fund
IDAHO, USA — The Eve Devitt Fund has awarded two Idaho students with scholarships for their work on human rights in Idaho. Scar Rulien, from Twin Falls and Eve Devitt from Boise received $2,500 scholarships. Both of them are activists for the LGBTQ+ community. Rulien founded the Bruin High...
12-Year-Old Breaks Montana State Fishing Record Near Idaho Border
Montana has a new fishing record holder. Wade Merschat, 12, of Trout Creek, reeled in a 6.72-pound largescale sucker at the Noxon Reservior in Sanders County near the Idaho border on June 19. The fish measured 25.25 inches long and Merschat was deemed record holder by the Montana Department of...
A Big Volcano Near Idaho Could be Ready for a New Eruption
Good news and bad news. One volcano could go boom, another is calming down. If you’re old enough to remember May 1980, you recall the days of darkness and the cold summer after Mount St. Helens blew its top. I graduated high school that year and then spent the summer at a family camp where we were building a house. My role was to guard the tools and lumber. It was chilly. I had a fire going on almost every night. The following winter was also no picnic.
Coming Idaho Heatwave Will Fire up Global Warming Crowd
The tree-hugging crowd will blame man-made climate change. The rest of us will call it summer. It’s going to be hot in Idaho next week. It often happens in July. Of course, much can change with long-range forecasts, but let’s say for argument we get a string of days with highs in the triple digits. Will we see some records fall? Possibly, but there have been previous hot summers. The 1930s set all kinds of records across the country. The 1940s came along and there were some of the coldest patches of weather in decades.
Idaho's Statehood Day to be celebrated in Wallace
WALLACE –– The Fourth of July may get all the big attention this week, but in Wallace, the party starts one day earlier when they celebrate Idaho's Statehood Day. On July 3, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed Idaho into statehood and the rest, as they say, is history.
Is It Illegal To Shoot Down A Drone in Idaho?
Paranoia is at an all-time high these days and honestly, we get it. You never know who you can trust and shoot, throw in the fact that we're in an election year... it feels like we all have to watch our backs these days. Don't let your paranoia get you...
Growing Idaho: Education leaders see issues with state funding distribution
BOISE, Idaho — Enrollment is dropping at public schools in Idaho. Some say they’re being funded like they should. We talked to the State Superintendent about that and a possible change that could be on the way. Debbie Critchfield, Idaho's Superintendent of Public Instruction, said district leaders have...
Cow Elk Poached in Idaho – Help Solve the Case
Below is a news release from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. For 2024-2025, Fiocchi partnered with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to increase the visibility of poaching incidents in an effort to reduce poaching. On Memorial Day weekend, a cow elk was shot out of season east of...
Idaho's new system for behavioral health goes live Monday
BOISE – Before Monday, a Medicaid patient receiving inpatient substance abuse treatment who needed to transition to outpatient therapy would have to contact multiple organizations and navigate several systems to make sure that happened. As of Monday, Idaho’s fragmented behavioral health care system should be more holistic as the new Idaho Behavioral Health Plan officially went live. The plan means that Medicaid, and some non-Medicaid patients, will have their mental health and substance abuse treatment and health care all overseen by one managed care organization,...
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