For the second year in a row, Idaho’s longest river takes one of the top spots in an annual list of threatened waterways in the U.S.

Artist Eddie Melendrez likes to paint people in their everyday lives. His works pay tribute to his Chicano culture by depicting scenes including lowrider cars and Day of the Dead celebrations.

An Ohio-based animal welfare advocacy group has filed a federal complaint alleging animal abuse at the University of Idaho.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is a contagious viral disease that often leads to dead chickens. Human infections from bird flu are possible, but rare.

Elise Quagliata has had the rare experience of truly getting to know the character she portrays in "Dead Man Walking" – Sister Helen Prejean. The nun famous for her activism for the abolition of the death penalty was portrayed, in an Oscar-winning performance, by Susan Sarandon in the film adaptation of Prejean’s memoir. And now, audiences are experiencing Prejean’s story anew with "Dead Man Walking," the opera.

The Interior Department is reopening lease sales on public lands. However, the agency announced that it was 80% less acreage than the oil and gas industry nominated for leasing. The Interior also increased royalty rates.

Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow were both in court Tuesday for Vallow’s arraignment and a hearing about the jury and trial location.

There is a “massive” shortage of affordable housing in Ketchum, city staff found. Census data shows residential construction has slowed and the proportion of long-term rentals have declined, while short-term vacation rental have increased.

The Mountain West has some of the highest gun ownership rates in the nation — and some of the least restrictive gun laws. New research suggests those high rates come with big risks.

Curtis Stigers doesn’t like to look back.“I've tended to just move forward and plow ahead and do new things and confuse critics and publicists.”