Boise news coverage

6+ hour, 27+ min ago   (997+ words) Voters cast their ballots on the last day of early voting at the Ada County Election headquarters in Boise on May 13, 2022. In 2007, Idaho lawmakers passed a law to make English the state’s official language. In this year’s general election on…...

3+ hour, 2+ min ago   (225+ words) Eastern Idaho saw tons of rain pass through Sunday, and the showers continue Monday as more precipitation from Hurricane Rachel hits the Gem State. On the western side of Idaho, things are calmer. That big cold front is still impacting…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (663+ words) Idaho has a state flower. A state amphibian. Even a state fossil. But — perhaps surprisingly for a state where so many people own guns — it doesn’t yet have a state gun. That could soon change. In November, Idaho residents will…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (199+ words) POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) – The rain could not keep the fun at bay at Idaho State University on Saturday morning when hundreds took to the streets on bikes, in truck beds and throwing candy from floats for the Homecoming Parade through…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (421+ words) A Flood Watch has been issued for the upcoming weekend in southern Idaho for the possibility of brief heavy rain. Oct 10 (Reuters) - The US military said on Saturday it had disabled a commercial cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1031+ words) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has donated $1 million to an Idaho political action committee, or PAC, opposing the abortion rights initiative on the ballot this November. The donation went to the Too Extreme for Idaho Political Action…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (395+ words) IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO — Real estate brokerage firm Keen-Summit Capital Partners LLC recently announced it would sell the building in Idaho Falls that operated as American Farmers Network and Intermountain Packing. The facility, which opened in November 2022, was one of the…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (213+ words) IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – The election season is raising questions about whether the Idaho attorney general’s office has become too politicized. Attorney General Raúl Labrador was in Idaho Falls Thursday for a luncheon with the Mountain States Policy Center. During…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (352+ words) Should Idaho’s Attorney General be a competent lawyer or a politician? Because many voters were not clear about what the attorney general is required to do in office, six former Idaho attorneys general joined together in April 2022 to explain. The…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (342+ words) Two Idaho political action committees, or PACS, on both sides of the proposed abortion rights initiative, Proposition 1, have spent $1.3 million combined, and raised nearly $7.5 million total. The ballot measure’s supporters have outpaced its opponents in both fundraising and spending so…...