An interview with Amy Gajda, author of Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy. The book is an important primer for today’s privacy wars - the surprising history of the right to privacy, and its battle against the public’s right to know.

It’s something Idaho and the Pacific Northwest deal with every year, but wildfire smoke from Canada is inundating the Midwest and northeastern parts of the United States.

A Colorado judge has issued an order temporarily blocking the proposed $24.6 billion merger between the nation’s two largest supermarket chains ahead of an antitrust trial in state court set to begin in September.

The Durkee Fire, which started last week in Baker County, grew to nearly 288,690 acres by Friday morning, and its perimeter is now 20% contained. Storms Wednesday night brought nearly 3,000 lightning strikes across the region, according to the National Weather Service.

A group of lawyers on behalf of private Idaho schools, privately-funded public libraries, parents and their children have sued Idaho officials in federal court to stop the enforcement of House Bill 710, a law that codified the process libraries must follow if a patron were to deem a material harmful to children.

The plan prioritizes a program that transfers live bison to tribal nations, as well as hunts that take place outside the park.

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed suit with the state supreme court Wednesday to block a ballot initiative that would implement a top-four primary system and ranked choice voting.

The Forest Corps, a new collaboration between AmeriCorps and the U.S. Forest Service, just inaugurated its first cohort of nearly 90 members. They’ll be sent out into priority landscapes across the West to do fuels reduction, prescribed burn and tree reseeding projects, all intended to support the USFS’ broader Wildfire Crisis and Reforestation strategies.

The National Weather Service is predicting an active weather pattern developing for Wednesday evening. The storms will mainly be focused on eastern Oregon, western Idaho and Ada County.

The step-by-step roadmap for a second Trump administration could have detrimental effects on public lands, according to conservationists. But mining advocates say it’s necessary to reverse Biden-era policies.

The legal team for Bryan Kohberger filed a memorandum supporting a change of venue for the trial from Latah County to Ada County. Kohberger is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022.

Treasure Valley residents woke up Tuesday to one of the smokiest days in recent years. Much of the haze is coming from a pair of wildfires in Eastern Oregon.