Idaho hospital stops baby delivery in part due to politics
A rural hospital in Idaho will stop delivering babies and providing other obstetrical care, citing recently passed laws in which physicians could be…
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Judge halts Wyoming abortion ban days after it took effect
A judge has temporarily blocked Wyoming’s new abortion…
Continue Reading Judge to consider allowing abortions to resume in Wyoming
A judge will hear arguments Wednesday over whether abortions will be allowed in Wyoming while a sweeping new ban gets challenged in her court.…
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Lawsuit seeks to block abortion pill ban in Wyoming
Abortion-rights supporters filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block Wyoming’s new abortion pill ban from taking…
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Judge pauses Biden waterway protections in Idaho, Texas
A federal judge has paused the Biden administration’s waterway protections in Idaho and…
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Wyoming bans transgender youth from girls’ sports teams
Wyoming has become the 19th state to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls’ or women’s sports teams after the Republican governor opted not…
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Idaho OKs veto-proof bill to allow execution by firing squad
A bill that would allow Idaho to execute condemned inmates by firing squad is headed to the governor’s desk after passing the Legislature with a…
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Idaho robbery suspect killed in Montana after hostage shot
Authorities say a suspect in an Idaho armed robbery has been killed by law enforcement after shooting a hostage near a travel center in western…
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US tribes get bison as they seek to restore bond with animal
Dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver have been transferred to several tribes from across the Great Plains.…
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Experts say attacks on free speech are rising across the US
First Amendment experts say attacks on free speech rights are escalating across the United States.…
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GOP-sought primary voter restrictions become law in Wyoming
Switching political parties to choose the primary in which to vote is about to become more difficult in Wyoming.…
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US to focus bison restoration on expanding tribal herds
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says her agency will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American…
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Pennsylvania unseals more search warrant in Idaho killings
Law enforcement officials have revealed more details regarding items seized from the Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate student charged…
Continue Reading Pennsylvania unseals search warrant in Idaho killings
Law enforcement officials seized dark clothing, medical gloves, a flashlight and other items from a Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate…
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Multistate fight on federal water rule exposes Idaho rift
Idaho’s attorney general has declined to join a 24-state lawsuit over a new federal water rule that opponents say could impact public and private…
Continue Reading Idaho bill would bring back execution by firing squad
Idaho could bring back firing squads as a method of execution under legislation introduced by a panel of lawmakers…
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues statement on SEC settlement
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its investment arm have been fined $5 million for using shell companies to obscure the size of…
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Idaho House passes ban on gender-affirming medical care
The Idaho House has passed a bill that would send healthcare providers to prison if they offer gender-affirming care to transgender…
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30 news groups ask Idaho Supreme Court to reject gag order
Thirty news organizations have asked the Idaho Supreme Court to overturn a gag order in a case against a man accused of stabbing four University of…
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US may lift protections for Yellowstone, Glacier grizzlies
U.S. wildlife officials have taken the first step to lift federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open the…
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Interior: $580M headed to 15 tribes to fulfill water rights
Fifteen Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million in federal money this year for water rights settlements, the Biden administration…
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Montana man charged with attempted murder of 2 teenagers
A Montana man was charged with attempted murder and attempted rape Thursday following a violent assault on two teenagers in a rural area bordering…
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Washington state Gov. Inslee tests positive for COVID-19
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second…
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Petito family lobbies for ‘lethality assessment’ law in Utah
The mother and father of a woman killed by her boyfriend in 2021 joined Utah lawmakers to lobby for the passage of a law to require police statewide…
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Wyoming weighs changing payment system for surplus solar
Wyoming could join a handful of states that have begun paying homeowners and businesses less for surplus electricity from their rooftop solar panels…
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Idaho senator’s bill would make ballot initiatives tougher
An Idaho lawmaker has introduced legislation that would ask voters to change the state’s constitution to make it harder to get initiatives on the…
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5 dead in Wyoming highway crashes caused by wrong-way driver
A series of crashes caused by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 80 killed five people and seriously injured others in south-central…
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Coroner ID’s man shot and killed by Boise police officer
Police say a Boise police officer shot and killed a man while law enforcement officials were trying to take him into custody on alleged felony…
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1st small modular nuclear reactor certified for use in US
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for what will be the United States’ first small modular nuclear…
Continue Reading News outlets join to oppose gag order in Idaho stabbing case
Twenty regional and national news organizations have formed a coalition to ask a judge to narrow a gag order in the case of a man accused of killing…
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Feds send $930 million to curb ‘crisis’ of US West wildfires
The Biden administration is directing $930 million toward reducing wildfire dangers in 10 western states by clearing trees and underbrush from…
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Police seize bedding from Idaho stabbing suspect’s home
Investigators seized stained bedding, strands of what looked like hair and a single glove when they searched the Washington state apartment of a…
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Author Howard Blum is writing book on Idaho student deaths
A bestselling author of crime stories and other nonfiction works is working on a book about the stabbing deaths last fall of four students at the…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What’s known, what’s next in Idaho stabbing case
The criminal case against a man accused of stabbing to death four University of Idaho students last November is underway, but it will likely be…
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Wyoming governor: ‘Make hay’ and save amid near-$1B surplus
Wyoming’s Republican governor is urging state lawmakers to save half of a nearly $1 billion surplus that follows a dramatic turnaround in the state’s…
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Lori Vallow-Daybell says she has an alibi
A woman charged with conspiring to kill her two children and her new husband’s late wife says she has an alibi, and that the kids were killed while…
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Idaho governor touts funding for education, public safety
Governor Brad Little will give his 2023 State of the State Address in the Idaho House Chambers at 1 p.m.…
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Idaho hot pool roof fall sends 7 to hospitals, cause unknown
Seven people went to hospitals after a roof collapsed on bathers at an Idaho hot…
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Idaho Legislature likely to focus on education, property tax
Education funding, property tax relief and a tug of war over how to best to use Idaho’s whopping budget surplus will be a focus for lawmakers as…
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The white sedan: How police found suspect in Idaho slayings
Authorities say a key piece of evidence in the case of four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in November turned out to be surveillance…
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Idaho court tosses lawsuit that aimed to block abortion bans
The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled the state Constitution does not implicitly enshrine abortion as a fundamental right.…
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A timeline of the killings of four University of Idaho students
Court documents have been unsealed after the suspect in the November fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students made his first court…
Continue Reading Man accused of killing Idaho college students in court
The man accused in the November slayings of four University of Idaho students was extradited to Idaho, where he’s charged with four counts of…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: Next steps and new details in Idaho killings
It’s been weeks since four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their beds, and now some of the mystery surrounding the case may…
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Man charged in students’ killings might be headed to Idaho
Authorities say the man accused in the November slayings of four University of Idaho students has left a Pennsylvania jail in the custody of state…
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Foot found in Yellowstone hot pool, but case is still murky
National Park Service documents released Tuesday offer new details but no solid clues as to what happened to a missing man whose foot was found…
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Idaho slayings suspect waives right to fight extradition
A criminology graduate student charged in the November slayings of four University of Idaho students waived his right to an extradition hearing in a…
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Teen pleads guilty to attempted murder of friend’s stepdad
A 14-year-old Idaho girl has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after prosecutors said she and a friend both tried to kill her friend’s…
Continue Reading Wyoming Supreme Court won’t weigh in on abortion ban for now
The Wyoming Supreme Court has declined to answer questions involving a lawsuit over the state’s new abortion…
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Wyoming bullishly courts crypto, even after collapse of FTX
With a suite of new laws and regulations, Wyoming as positioned itself as arguably the friendliest state for crypto companies.…
Continue Reading Idaho students’ unsolved deaths prompt rumors, harassment
Investigators have yet to name a suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a home near campus last…
Continue Reading Boise police accountability director fired, sues city
The director of Boise’s police watchdog group who was put on leave earlier this month has been fired, and he has filed a lawsuit against the city.…
Continue Reading Idaho Power contractor killed in landslide on Oregon border
Authorities say a 39-year-old Oregon man was killed in a landslide while doing contract work for Idaho Power to secure a rock shelf above a road on…
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23 injured in Utah tour bus crash as snowstorm pelts region
A tour bus heading from Boise, Idaho to Salt Lake City, Utah crashed on Monday morning, flipping onto its side and injuring dozens of…
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Ex-Idaho cop tied to white supremacy alleges discrimination
A retired longtime police captain whose ties to a white supremacist group have prompted an in-depth investigation of potential racism at the Boise…
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Idaho cops seek car seen near site where 4 students killed
Police are asking for help finding the occupant of a car that was seen near where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death last month,…
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Audit of Idaho’s general election results finds few flaws
An audit of more than 19,000 ballots cast in Idaho’s general election has identified only six…
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EXPLAINER: Deaths of 4 Idaho students fuel online sleuths
The deaths of four University of Idaho students nearly three weeks ago has riled up thousands of would-be armchair sleuths, many of whom are posting…
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Police: Missing boy’s remains were likely moved to new spot
Police in southwestern Idaho say they believe they have found the place where the body of a missing 5-year-old boy was temporarily buried, but they…
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Half-empty Idaho campus full of fear and grief after murders
In a normal year, University of Idaho students would be bustling between classes and the library, readying for the pre-finals cramming period known…
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Montana officials urge judge to lift limit on wolf kills
Montana officials are asking a judge to lift a restraining order that restricted wolf hunting and trapping in the…
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10 days in, no suspect, no weapon in Idaho student slayings
Authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students as they slept say detectives have looked extensively into…
Continue Reading Mayor of Idaho’s largest city launches police investigation
The mayor of Idaho’s largest city has launched an investigation to determine if a police officer, whose ties to a white supremacist group became…
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Lawyers seek to block Idaho execution of terminally ill man
A terminally ill man scheduled to be executed in mid-December for his role in the 1985 slayings of two gold prospectors in Idaho is asking a federal…
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Idaho lawmakers working on additional ‘ESG’ legislation
Idaho lawmakers are planning to bring forward potential new laws in the upcoming legislative session intended to limit state investments or contracts…
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Idaho AG-elect hires former Trump administration attorneys
Idaho will add a new position of solicitor general to challenge federal government actions and policies when Republican Raul Labrador becomes the…
Continue Reading Coroner: Idaho students were stabbed to death in their beds
Four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a rental house Sunday were stabbed to death in their beds and likely were asleep, a county…
Continue Reading Foot found in Yellowstone hot pool ID’d as that of LA man
Yellowstone National Park officials say a foot found floating in a hot pool last summer belonged to a 70-year-old man from Los…
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Gabby Petito family settles $3M suit in killing by fiance
The families of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie have reached a $3 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed after authorities concluded he…
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GOP wins slim House majority, complicating ambitious agenda
Republicans have won control of the U.S. House, returning the party to power in Washington and giving conservatives leverage to blunt President Joe…
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