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'Boise homes at Boise budgets': City unveils new affordable housing complex on State Street

KTVB 7 - Idaho ·

Boise adds 102 affordable housing units with Wilson Station Apartments, with 10% set set aside for families exiting homelessness. BOISE, Idaho — Boise is attempting to combat Idaho's fast rising housing prices with new affordable housing units....

Boise Bar Blasted for ‘Inhumane’ Treatment of Homeless Man [Video]

103.5 KISS FM - Idaho · August 19, 2025

A video posted online by a local Boise bar and concert venue is beginning to create waves not only in Boise's live music and 'punk' scene, but across the entire Treasure Valley. We're luck to live in a place where folks look out for one another...

Idaho Department of Lands seeks to balance pending budget cuts with firefighting needs

Idaho Capital Sun · August 19, 2025

Idaho Department of Lands officials are seeking to balance state-mandated budget cuts that almost all state agencies face this year with the desire to provide the aggressive and safe wildfire response Idahoans expect, state officials said. Idaho...

Idaho father in custody after teen daughter found dead in home

Court TV - Georgia · August 19, 2025

CALDWELL, Idaho (Scripps News Boise) — An 18-year-old girl is dead in Caldwell, and her father is behind bars after police picked him up in Mountain Home. According to the Caldwell Police Department, officers responded to a call from a teen on...

Idaho demands Forest Service wildfire documents

Capital Press - Oregon · August 19, 2025

Published 2:41 pm Tuesday, August 19, 2025 Idaho’s government has filed a lawsuit demanding the U.S. Forest Service turn over documents explaining its wildfire policies under the Freedom of Information Act. Earlier this year, the Idaho Attorney...

Boise Residents Rave About This Popular Family Owned Brunch Spot

Power 105.5 - Idaho · August 19, 2025

Boise is known for having the best brunch places in the Treasure Valley. No matter where you go in Boise you know that you’re going to have a great experience. The service is always above average and the food is show-stopping. If you’re looking...

Wilson Station opens in Boise, adding 102 affordable homes for local families

ABC 6 - Idaho · August 19, 2025

BOISE, Idaho — Boise has added more affordable housing with the opening of Wilson Station Apartments, a 102-unit complex serving families earning below 80% of the area’s median income. The complex, which first opened in May, is located next to...

Under Idaho Medicaid law, doctors warn kids’ access to primary care is at risk

The Spokesman-Review - Washington State ·

Idaho providers warn that a new state law meant to overhaul the way the state manages care for Medicaid patients risks stripping away primary care access for those patients — many of whom are children. Lawmakers this year passed House Bill 345,...

Starch Madness remains in Boise through 2031

Columbia Basin Herald - Washington State · August 19, 2025

MOSES LAKE — In a statement by the Big Sky Conference, the Starch Madness tournament will remain in Boise through 2031. The conference and Idaho’s state capital agreed to terms that keeps the annual men’s and women’s basketball tournaments in...

Starch Madness Staying in Boise Through 2031

Nonstop Local SWX Sports - Washington State ·

FARMINGTON, Utah (Aug. 19, 2025) – Starch Madness will live on in Boise for many years to come, as the Big Sky Conference and its partners in Idaho’s state capital proudly announced today that they have agreed to terms for the league’s annual...

Cashing in on ‘AI slop’: The surreal business taking over the web

The Detroit News - Michigan ·

Luis Talavera, a 31-year-old loan officer in eastern Idaho, first went viral in June with an AI-generated video on TikTok in which a fake but lifelike old man talked about soiling himself. Within two weeks, he had used AI to pump out 91 more,...

Good news, women! Idaho isn’t the very worst state for equality. Two rank lower

The Spokesman-Review - Washington State ·

Thanks to gorgeous mountains, bountiful outdoor recreation and a thriving capital city, Idahoans often sip blissfully from a stream of flattery flowing from the outside world. But not always. A newly updated study suggests the Gem State isn’t...

Longtime business owners named grand marshals for Rainier Round-Up Days

Nisqually Valley News - Washington State · August 19, 2025

Jacob Dimond / jake@yelmonline.com The annual Rainier Round-Up Days Parade is set to return at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 23, and two longtime business owners and Rainier residents, Steve and Sheryl Turner, will be highlighted and honored as the...

Idaho National Guard, Air St. Luke's rescue hiker with broken leg on Trinity Mountain

KTVB 7 - Idaho · August 19, 2025

This marks the Idaho National Guard's eighth successful search and rescue this year. BOISE, Idaho — A helicopter crew from the Idaho National Guard was able to assist Air St. Luke's in successfully rescuing a man from Trinity Mountain. A news...

Park City Creamery wins awards at Idaho cheese competition

TownLift - Utah · August 19, 2025

Photo: Park City Creamery PARK CITY, Utah — Park City Creamery earned second and third place in the Brie category at the Idaho Milk Processors Association Annual Conference, marking another recognition for the woman-owned artisan creamery. The...

On Nigeria’s economy

Blueprint Newspapers Limited · August 19, 2025

As the year gradually runs to an end, the need to examine the state of things becomes inevitable to take stocks and forge ahead. It is on this premise that the President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Mr. Gabriel Idahosa,...

BLM accepting nominations for 2026 geothermal lease sale in Idaho

ThinkGeoEnergy · August 19, 2025

Bennett Mountain Road, Snake River Plains, Idaho (source: flickr/ Matt Lavin, creative commons) The Bureau of Land Management has opened nominations for land parcels to be included in a geothermal lease sale in Idaho scheduled for October 2026....

Lori Vallow Daybell leaves Arizona jail cell and is flown back to Idaho

KTVZ - Oregon · August 19, 2025

Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX, Arizona (eastidahonews.com) — Lori Vallow Daybell is back in Idaho where she will spend the rest of her life behind bars in Pocatello. Daybell has been incarcerated at the Estrella Jail in Maricopa...

Lori Daybell extradited back to Idaho after Arizona convictions

Court TV - Georgia · August 19, 2025

PHOENIX (Scripps News Phoenix/Court TV) — Lori Daybell has been extradited back to Idaho after being convicted and sentenced in two separate murder conspiracy trials in Arizona. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Daybell was...

Local steel company recruiting new employees as new technology puts it on track for fourth record-setting year

East Idaho News · August 19, 2025

Torey Sutton, Quality Control Inspector at TRC Fabrication, using augmented reality goggles to design a steel railing. See how it and other machines work in the video above. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com IDAHO FALLS – TRC Fabrication, a steel...