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How do you know your zucchinis are ready, and what do you do with all of them? Are your tomatoes safe as morning chills creep in? Is there still time to grow another round of greens before it gets too cold? Idaho Matters helps answer some green thumb questions.

Here in Idaho, kids are back in school with districts making different decisions across the board in regards to student safety and masks. With children 12 and under not yet able to be vaccinated, many folks are questioning the safety of coming back to the classroom.

Ashley Brown is a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at St. Luke’s Meridian. After a couple of her shifts last week — right before the state activated Crisis Standards of Care in North Idaho — she recorded her thoughts for us.

New classes, new people and new schedules are all likely stressors for college students. But now, with pandemic disruptions, social isolation and general unrest — college life may be harder than ever.

In September 2001, a group of women formed the Idaho Women's Charitable Foundation, determined that they could make a significant difference in Idaho communities. Twenty years later, this organization has given more than $5 million in grants to organizations across the state.

The Idaho Matters Reporter Roundtable discusses sticker shock from Ada County property tax assessments, median home prices in the Boise metro, the housing shortage crisis in Ketchum, and a national expert on extremism weighs in on Idaho lawmakers' focus on critical race theory this past legislative session.

As smoke continues to fill the Treasure Valley and other parts of the West, Idaho Matters shares tips for dealing with smoke and wildfire.

Idaho Matters checks-in with doctors from our largest health care systems to learn what's going on with an uptick in COVID-19 hospitalizations several months into the state's vaccination efforts.

Growth is changing the landscape in the Treasure Valley from fields and farmland to buildings and homes. As the fields disappear, so do the plants and flowers that bees, butterflies and other pollinators need to survive. A new project aims to bring back those flowers and the pollinators they rely on.

The pandemic brought more people to the lake town of McCall, exacerbating an already existing shortage of affordable places for workers to live.