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Starting Feb. 15, Idaho's new SNAP rules will ban candy and soda purchases, forcing thousands of shoppers, and the stores that serve them, to rethink how they buy and sell groceries.

Idaho Matters takes a look at the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and what it could mean for Idahoans, Idaho banks and credit unions.

Idaho Matters takes a look at a food memoire that is part challenge, part hope.

How do you bring Amelia Earhart and a haunted radio to kids in all parts of Idaho? Plus teach them about trust and taking chances, with a little bit of history thrown in? Theater for Youth is doing exactly that, with a traveling production for 100,000 K-5 students, including refugees from Africa, Mexico, and Columbia - many of whom are watching their very first theater production.

The company that provides the water for much of the Treasure Valley is asking for a 24% rate hike to help pay for improvements to the large system that provides drinking water to over 105,000 homes and businesses. Idaho Matters takes a look at what those increased rates would help pay for, as well as where our water comes from and how it gets to our homes.

The Treefort Music Festival starts next week in downtown Boise and alongside all the bands and music, festival-goers will hear from authors, journalists and podcasters at Storyfort. Joining us now is Christian Winn, the organizer of Storyfort and one of this year's storytellers, Carissa Wolf, a lecturer in the Boise State Sociology Department who also co-directs the Idaho Media Initiative.

Idaho's Governor files lawsuit against tent encampment near Idaho Statehouse.

Idaho Matters Doctors Roundtable: March 16, 2022

Experts give their early impressions of what led up to the invasion, what conditions are like on the ground in Ukraine, and what we might expect next.

Idaho farms produce the second-most hops in the country - now 16% of domestic production - more than four times what Idaho produced in 2012. Joining us to talk about the business of hops and beer are Diane Gooding from Gooding Farms in Parma, Jeff Alworth, author and journalist who runs the Beervana Blog and Stan Hieronymus, journalist and author of "For the Love of Hops".