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Coeur d’Alene greenlights massive 2,800-home development that would effectively connect city to Post Falls

UPDATED: Wed., March 22, 2023

In the early 1990s, Coeur d'Alene city leaders approved a housing development so huge that it forever altered the footprint of the Lake City. They just did it again.

News > Business

Palouse Habitat for Humanity expands Moscow store, eyes more building projects

UPDATED: Wed., March 22, 2023

Palouse Habitat for Humanity is expanding its Moscow thrift store with the hope that more revenue will lead to more affordable homes being built on the Palouse.

News > Crime/Public Safety

18-year-old stabbed at Post Falls house party, 19-year-old suspect on the loose

UPDATED: Wed., March 22, 2023

Police are looking for a 19-year-old suspect after an 18-year-old man was stabbed multiple times over the weekend at a Post Falls house party.

News > Idaho

Drug-sniffing dog put his paws on a man’s car. Idaho Supreme Court says he trespassed

UPDATED: Wed., March 22, 2023

The Idaho Supreme Court has vacated a Mountain Home man’s conviction for felony drug possession and delivery after it ruled that a police drug-sniffing dog trespassed and conducted an illegal search by putting its paws on his vehicle, prompting the search that led to his arrest. The court issued its decision Monday, with three of the five justices in agreement and two dissenting. The case ...

News > Military

Confederate flag removed from Post Falls American Legion after visiting veteran complains

UPDATED: Tue., March 21, 2023

The American Legion displayed the flag in the banquet room for the past 20 years along with about 50 others, according to a spokesman for the Post Falls location.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Idaho judge makes ruling on possibility of death penalty in Lori Daybell’s murder case

UPDATED: Tue., March 21, 2023

The death penalty is no longer an option in the trial for Lori Vallow Daybell, who is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan along with Chad’s previous wife, Tammy Daybell.

News > Nation/World

Biden says he’ll work with Simpson and others to help salmon in Northwest; McMorris Rodgers highlights president’s river mix-up

UPDATED: Wed., March 22, 2023

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Tuesday promised to work with leaders in the Northwest, including a prominent Republican, to protect salmon in the Columbia River Basin.

News > Education

Coeur d’Alene school board will try to pass levy again as superintendent warns up to five campuses will shutter if it fails a second time

Tue., March 21, 2023

During a special meeting Monday, the Coeur d'Alene School Board of Trustees unanimously voted to place a two-year levy on the May 16 ballot. If voters approve it, the tax will collect $25 million annually and replace a $20 million levy passed in 2021.

News > Pacific NW

Idaho bill to execute inmates by firing squad clears Legislature, heads to governor

UPDATED: Wed., March 22, 2023

Idaho is poised to become the fifth U.S. state to approve prisoner executions by firing squad after the proposed law cleared the Legislature on Monday on its way to the governor’s desk.

A&E > Art

Painting the Pacific Northwest: Idaho artist Andy Sewell has painted his home region for over 30 years

Sun., March 19, 2023

Yaquina Head Lighthouse standing proud atop the Oregon cliffside. Golden wheat fields rolling across the Palouse in Washington. The clear, blue waters lapping at the shores of Idaho’s Redfish Lake. For over 30 years, Andy Sewell has brought scenes from the American Northwest to life with his paintbrush.

News > Pacific NW

Babe Vote, March for Our Lives Idaho file suit over law eliminating student IDs for voting

Sat., March 18, 2023

Two different organizations representing young people in Idaho announced they have filed lawsuits challenging a new law that Gov. Brad Little recently signed that eliminates student IDs as an acceptable form of identification for voting.

News > Idaho

Bill criminalizing gender care for trans youth clears hurdle in Idaho Legislature

UPDATED: Fri., March 17, 2023

A few Idaho state senators from both major political parties said in a Friday committee hearing that they can’t support an existing bill to criminalize all gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth – but the committee’s Republicans were open to supporting an amended version.

News > Pacific NW

New report shows Idaho’s shortage of direct care workers is worse than national average

UPDATED: Fri., March 17, 2023

A new report released to the Idaho Legislature on Thursday by the Office of Performance Evaluations found the state needs at least 3,000 more direct care workers to serve older and disabled Idahoans who rely on those professionals to remain in their homes.

News > Health

Bonner General Health to stop providing pregnancy, labor and delivery care as doctors flee state over abortion laws

UPDATED: Fri., March 17, 2023

The North Idaho hospital will stop offering pregnancy care this spring due, in part, to Idaho laws that criminalize abortion care.

News > Pacific NW

Nonprofits seek relief from Idaho Attorney General Labrador’s ‘fishing expedition’

UPDATED: Fri., March 17, 2023

Last year, the Marsing School District applied for a federal grant to help fund summer school and preschool programs. The rural Treasure Valley district, which serves fewer than 1,000 students, received about $135,000. “It was always our interpretation that we qualified,” Marsing Superintendent Norm Stewart told the Idaho Statesman by phone. That’s why Stewart was surprised this month when the ...

News > Idaho

U of Idaho homicides suspect had a rare neurological condition, visual snow. What is it?

UPDATED: Fri., March 17, 2023

The man charged with the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students has spent much of his teen and adult life consumed by a rare neurological disorder known as visual snow syndrome. “He would talk about it, like, all the time,” Thomas Arntz, a former friend of Koberger’s in high school, told the Idaho Statesman in a phone interview. “The word that comes to mind is that he was ...

News > Pacific NW

He used phony ID to buy a travel trailer from a Boise dealer, then made it a fake-ID lab

UPDATED: Thu., March 16, 2023

A “prolific identity thief” used stolen information to buy a $19,000 travel trailer from a Boise dealer that he turned into a mobile unit for producing false identifications and phony credit cards, prosecutors said.

News > Pacific NW

How does Idaho count wolves? Critics say state uses ‘smoke and mirrors,’ misleads public

UPDATED: Fri., March 17, 2023

As a scruffy gray-and-brown wolf stood in a grassy Idaho clearing, it fixed its gaze straight ahead. Another dark wolf trotted down a muddy dirt road. A third stepped over gravelly terrain, its mouth open as it panted in the sun. Motion-triggered cameras, placed by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, snapped photos of the wild animals along trails. Later, the agency would use those photos to help determine the number of wolves residing in Idaho.

News > Pacific NW

Ada County decision to decline homelessness dollars sets off row with Boise’s mayor

UPDATED: Fri., March 17, 2023

Boise Mayor Lauren McLean is criticizing the Ada County Commission for declining to spend federal funds on emergency housing for people experiencing homelessness, saying that puts Boise at risk of becoming another Portland.

News > Pacific NW

Idaho search warrants show police work on Moscow homicides before Bryan Kohberger’s arrest

UPDATED: Wed., March 15, 2023

Dozens of newly released search warrants in the investigation into November’s University of Idaho homicides reveal for the first time how law enforcement pursued and developed evidence that led to the arrest of suspected killer Bryan Kohberger.

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Coeur d’Alene greenlights massive 2,800-home development that would effectively connect city to Post Falls

Palouse Habitat for Humanity expands Moscow store, eyes more building projects

18-year-old stabbed at Post Falls house party, 19-year-old suspect on the loose

Drug-sniffing dog put his paws on a man’s car. Idaho Supreme Court says he trespassed

Confederate flag removed from Post Falls American Legion after visiting veteran complains

Idaho judge makes ruling on possibility of death penalty in Lori Daybell’s murder case

Biden says he’ll work with Simpson and others to help salmon in Northwest; McMorris Rodgers highlights president’s river mix-up

Coeur d’Alene school board will try to pass levy again as superintendent warns up to five campuses will shutter if it fails a second time

Idaho bill to execute inmates by firing squad clears Legislature, heads to governor

Painting the Pacific Northwest: Idaho artist Andy Sewell has painted his home region for over 30 years

Babe Vote, March for Our Lives Idaho file suit over law eliminating student IDs for voting

Bill criminalizing gender care for trans youth clears hurdle in Idaho Legislature

New report shows Idaho’s shortage of direct care workers is worse than national average

Bonner General Health to stop providing pregnancy, labor and delivery care as doctors flee state over abortion laws

Nonprofits seek relief from Idaho Attorney General Labrador’s ‘fishing expedition’

U of Idaho homicides suspect had a rare neurological condition, visual snow. What is it?

He used phony ID to buy a travel trailer from a Boise dealer, then made it a fake-ID lab

How does Idaho count wolves? Critics say state uses ‘smoke and mirrors,’ misleads public

Ada County decision to decline homelessness dollars sets off row with Boise’s mayor

Idaho search warrants show police work on Moscow homicides before Bryan Kohberger’s arrest

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