Julie Luchetta
Reporter, Report for America Corps memberExpertise: Audio editing, public health, social issues reporting
Education: University of Arizona
Highlights
- Loo-keh-Tah
- I have lots of opinions on podcasts and storytelling in general and I absolutely want to hear yours
- French
Experience
I joined Boise State Public Radio in 2022 as the Canyon County reporter through Report for America, to report on the growing Latino community in Idaho. I am very invested in listening to people’s different perspectives and I am very grateful to those who are willing to share their stories with me. It’s a privilege and I do not take it for granted.
I started this job, my first full-time position in journalism, a couple of weeks before the repeal of Roe v. Wade and have been covering the local implications of Idaho’s changing legal landscape ever since and the impacts it has had on the state.
Email: If you have a tip (or podcast recommendation) please shoot me an email.
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Givens served two terms as a house representative in the 1980s. She was also the first native woman to run for a seat in the U.S. Congress -
The local branch of U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants will help nine Afrikaners from two families resettle in Twin Falls. They are expecting their arrival in the coming days. -
The first group of Afrikaners granted refugee status in the U.S. have arrived in the country. On Monday, the white descendants of mostly Dutch colonizers of South Africa flew into Washington DC on a chartered plane. Among them were two families headed to Idaho for resettlement. -
On Tuesday night, the Boise City Council voted 5 to 1 to adopt the LGBTQ+ flag as one of three official city flags. Both supporters and opponents showed up at City Hall. -
Kootenai County Fire and Rescue is in charge of the statewide program to distribute free Narcan, In the last seven months, it has shipped about 26,000 kits to organizations and individuals across Idaho. -
For International Labor Day, or May day, several hundred people gathered in downtown Boise Thursday afternoon to protest the Trump administration. Joining similar events across the U.S., about 800 people met in front of City Hall with signs condemning a broad swath of the president’s policies. -
Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy have agreed to waive a 1995 nuclear agreement to allow research on spent nuclear fuel in East Idaho. The waiver will allow radioactive waste generated in another state to be sent to the Idaho National Lab, or INL, for study. -
In April, the Trump administration without explanation abruptly revoked the visas of roughly 1800 international students, including five studying in Idaho. Over the weekend, their status was reinstated. -
Parishioners Wednesday gathered at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Boise Wednesday to mourn the passing of Pope Francis on Monday. The Boise memorial, and others across the state, coincided with remembrances at the Vatican. -
The Idaho Fish and Game reports mule deer and elk herds across the state are healthy following a mild winter.
