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After almost three years, a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s anti-trans school bathroom bill has been dropped.
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Note: This is an encore edition of Reader’s Corner. The episode originally aired in May 2023. An interview with Susan Elia MacNeal, author of the novel, Mother Daughter Traitor Spy. The book is inspired by a real-life mother and daughter to go undercover after stumbling upon a Nazi cell in Los Angeles during the early days of World War II. -
On the third week of May, Samantha Silva shares a poem of her own, titled “My Middle.”
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Recent News
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Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho and Wyoming have no statewide wildfire building codes. Colorado adopted a code last year, with enforcement expected to begin this year. Most other Western states are somewhere in between. -
At night, temperatures are often cooler and the air is wetter, which gives wildland firefighters a long window to make up significant ground when trying to suppress blazes. But that pattern is breaking down, a trend driven by human-caused climate change, according to a new study. -
AAA expects a record number of travelers on the road – and in the sky – over this Memorial Day weekend amid soaring gas prices. -
Boise State Public Radio is currently experiencing an unplanned outage at our KLCZ Lewiston site.
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Growth has been strong over the last year despite a great deal of uncertainty last spring over the future of the ambitious effort.
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- Idaho Matters Reporter Roundtable: May 22, 2026
- One local bookstore is using art to keep the doors open
- Inside the plastic problem: Erica Cirino on pollution, health and hopeful solutions
- 'Journal of the Plague Years:' One Idaho author reflects on life during and after COVID
- Debut author examines sisterhood, loss and new beginnings in new release
- Mountain West Consortium Bets on Geothermal as the Region’s Next Big Power Source
- Federal agencies share ideas for boosting veterans' access to outdoor recreation on public lands
- New research shows that prescribed fire, other fuels treatments net major savings
- Senate bill could remove regulations around nuclear plant building materials
- As sagebrush shrinks in the West, conservation groups push for pygmy rabbit protections
