Morning Edition host George Prentice received a unique request from the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. And with each evening’s production of the rollicking musical Little Shop of Horrors, more people have learned the “secret.”

The Idaho Commission for Libraries is changing how it will run its electronic materials collection after significant legislative pushback earlier this year.

Boise State Public Radio wins Idaho's lone 2022 national Edward R. Murrow award.

A Pew Research Center analysis found that one in six journalists are now part of a union, and more than twice that want to join one. However, it also found that smaller publications, like those in the rural Mountain West, are less likely to unionize. Of those with fewer than 10 people, only 4% have a union.

Wastewater data from 10 Idaho counties tracking the coronavirus are now available in one place.

A federal program helps send nurses and social workers into the homes of thousands of lower-income or at-risk parents in the Mountain West to help before, during and after a birth. However, its funding is set to lapse at the end of next month. Advocates are asking for reauthorization, pointing to its proven track record of improving prenatal health and readiness for school.

Idaho stopped requiring prior authorization for Medicaid recipients to go through hepatitis C treatment and recommends everyone gets tested at least once.

Idaho has a potato shortage. If you haven't heard about it already or noticed fewer and fewer potatoes in your grocery store's produce section, you will soon. So what's behind the spud shortage?

The contract is with Eagle Eye Security, Inc. based in Kimberly. The private security officers will wear uniforms and be armed.

With Boise in the throes of a broad rewrite of its zoning code, Max Holleran, author of “Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing,” says, “I think I could write a whole other book of cities that have just exploded in their populations and the desire for more housing - places that are beautiful and have a lot of natural assets, like Boise.”