Police departments across Idaho are embracing AI-powered surveillance tools to solve crimes faster, even as critics raise concerns about privacy and oversight.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies award will fund up to 300 apartments, with city officials expecting sharply lower utility costs for residents.
Lawmakers in some Republican-controlled states face resistance from business groups that say strict verification could cripple key industries.
Despite fears they’d shift Idaho left, newcomers from California are reinforcing the state’s conservative tilt.
State prisons are full, forcing Idaho to house inmates in county jails and out-of-state facilities at sharply higher expense.
The state’s projected budget deficit for fiscal year 2026 has increased to $58.3 million. Idaho’s constitution prevents it from running a budget deficit.
To balance budgets, states are trimming provider rates even before President Trump’s tax law strips $1 trillion in federal Medicaid support over 10 years.
The diagnosis comes amid a nationwide surge and follows wastewater detection of the virus in Coeur d’Alene.
Labor and delivery units have closed and recruitment has collapsed, with physician leaders warning the workforce loss could take decades to recover.
Officials said the program’s cost ballooned to over $24 million in 2024, which they attributed in large part to parents committing fraud.
A new cost-cutting law will move the system toward managed care, likely over a period of about four years.
Local governments and school districts are now forbidden from requiring masks to prevent the spread of disease. Masks can still be required for certain types of jobs such as health care and working with hazardous materials.
Idaho lawmakers have introduced legislation requiring counties to get voter approval for wind farms. If they’re rejected, counties must charge an excise tax that could exceed $2.5 million per turbine.
Five states allow firing squads but Idaho could become the first to use it as the primary method of execution.
Wildfires will continue to rage out of control unless federal forest managers learn from Western states how to properly steward public lands and contain their fires.
The bipartisanship that Cecil Andrus, Dan Evans and Tom McCall practiced decades ago sets them apart from many of today’s political leaders. It helped that they had shared values — and that they liked each other.
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