James Dawson

As Ada County was grappling with growing evidence of a spike in cases of COVID-19 in mid-June linked to the reopening of bars, a high-ranking Republican state lawmaker voted to block further monitoring of these outbreaks.

Idaho’s largest hospitals say they’re admitting more and more people with cases of COVID-19 as the community has failed to stem the spread of the disease in recent weeks.

While Idaho appears to have closed out its most recent fiscal year in the black, Gov. Brad Little is wasting no time in preemptively cutting $200 million from state budgets in the face of falling revenue.

Boise State University is cutting some of its sports programs as the school continues to deal with the financial fallout of COVID-19.

Ada County will now require all employees and anyone entering a county building to wear a mask, as the area battles a large surge in coronavirus cases.

Two new laws have just gone into effect in Idaho that target transgender residents, coming on the heels of a major U.S. Supreme Court decision that greatly expanded LGBTQ rights.

A surge in new coronavirus cases is keeping most of Idaho locked into Stage 4 of Gov. Brad Little’s reopening plan for at least another couple of weeks.

A federal judge has ruled Idaho must either allow a ballot initiative campaign to collect signatures electronically, or include the initiative on the general election ballot in November.

Bars and large venues in Ada County must close starting Wednesday due to a rash of coronavirus cases spreading like wildfire in the area.

When he launched Idaho’s phased reopening plan in April, Gov. Brad Little said if cases of coronavirus in Idaho spiked, the entire state could move back through these four different stages. That no longer appears to be the case.

After fewer businesses than expected applied for help from the state to weather the recent coronavirus shutdown, Idaho is using up to $100 million of that money to push people to go back to work.

You’ll have to look elsewhere for your corndog or elephant ear fix come August. Organizers of the Western Idaho Fair say they’re cancelling this year’s event out of an abundance of caution over fears it could spread the coronavirus.

Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling has delivered another blow to a pair of controversial laws set to take effect next month that roll back transgender rights in Idaho.

Reclaim Idaho has sued Gov. Brad Little and Secretary of State Lawerence Denney after they both declined to allow electronic signature gathering for ballot initiatives earlier this year.

After nearly 90 minutes of constitutional arguments and pointed questions, a turf war between state superintendent Sherri Ybarra, the Legislature and the State Board of Education is now in the Idaho Supreme Court's hands.

Tuesday’s primary results saw the right-wing faction of the Republican gain ground in the Idaho House, but it also potentially netted an even bigger prize.

It looks like at least one far-right candidate in Eastern Idaho won’t be returning to the statehouse in January.

A federal judge says her ruling from two years ago barring the automatic denial of a transgender person wanting to change their birth certificate still stands.

The Ada County Republican Central Committee may have made an illegal payment to its chairman without a permanent treasurer to sign off on the party’s campaign finance records.