Search results for

Serving second chances: that's the mantra of Life's Kitchen, a nonprofit that has taught culinary and life skills to more than 900 young adults over the past two decades.

Conservation groups are trying to stop wolf trapping in Idaho, saying the practice threatens endangered grizzly bears. Thirteen groups filed a lawsuit saying traps and snares for wolves could also kill grizzlies and they asked a federal judge last week to stop the practice when bears are not hibernating.

Dry January is a huge trend that many people undertake at the start of every year. In fact, according to health experts, “sober curious” is likely to be one of the top health and wellness trends of 2024.

While we still struggle with cases of COVID-19 and its variants many are looking back over the past three years to figure out what we did right and what we did wrong, with an eye toward the next global outbreak of a virus.

Idaho Matters is looking back at the big stories from 2023 in Idaho politics, culture, education and more.

An interview with Marc C. Johnson, author of Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate. The book highlights two Senate leaders whose commitment to bipartisanship lead to the passage of groundbreaking legislation, even in tumultuous times.

An interview with Azeem Azhar, author of The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society. The book explores the widening gap between rapidly-expanding technology and our ability to deal with its effects.

Hundreds of Americans are still dying each week from COVID-19, according to CDC data. For the last four weeks the average death rate in the U.S., due to covid, was 1,488. And covid levels are once again on the rise as a new variant makes up more than 60% of all cases right now.

Idaho is known for producing world-class biathletes, from Boise native Sara Studebaker-Hall, who competed in two Olympics, to Lyle Nelson of McCall, who competed four times in the Olympic Biathlon. Now, a new generation is breaking records.

Biden administration officials have been visiting the West a lot to promote spending packages like the inflation reduction act. They've already directed more than 50 billion dollars to the region. But are residents of small towns noticing?