Animal Abuse

Kevin Richert, senior reporter and blogger with Idaho Ed News; Audrey Dutton, Senior Investigative Reporter with the Idaho Capital Sun; Nate Sunderland, Managing Editor, EastIdahoNews.com.

It’s difficult to fathom that some of the beautiful dogs on the planet are often rescued from horrible circumstances. But that’s how Tiffany Larson spends her days. In fact, on the website of her nonprofit, Unega Mountain Dog Rescue, the headline reads, “Saving lives, one dog at a time.”

When Boise City Councilman TJ Thomson decided not to run for reelection this year, he also knew that he had one big final task ahead: a dramatic repeal…

A federal judge has ordered Idaho to pay roughly a quarter million dollars in legal fees to the Animal Legal Defense Fund and other groups who…

The Ketchum City Council this week passed an ordinance authorizing police to break into cars to rescue pets endangered by high temperatures. It may be the…

Food processing heavyweight Chobani is urging Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter to veto a bill that would make penalties stricter for animal rights activists caught…

Lawmakers voted to send a bill blocking activists from secretly filming agricultural operations in hopes of capturing abuse on camera forward to full…

Updated at 1:25 p.m.Police have arrested one of two men who they believe broke into an Idaho zoo the night a monkey there died from blunt-force trauma.…

The owner of a large Twin Falls County dairy operation says he fired five of his employees in August after seeing an undercover video made at a farm near…

BOISE, ID – Idaho’s House of Representatives will soon vote on an animal cruelty bill. House lawmakers in charge of agriculture backed legislation today…