Corrections And Clarifications

The City of Boise is still reeling from the discovery, made by writer and activist Molly Condor, that a recently retired Boise Police officer had ties to a white supremacy organization.

There is a “massive” shortage of affordable housing in Ketchum, city staff found. Census data shows residential construction has slowed and the proportion of long-term rentals have declined, while short-term vacation rental have increased.

“We have to think swiftly,” said Crystal Tulley-Cordova, principal hydrologist for the Navajo Nation. “Otherwise, we will continue to be in the situation that we are in, or even in worse circumstances.”

Idaho Fish and Game and wildlife managers are planning an emergency hunt to understand how widespread chronic wasting disease is in Idaho’s deer population.

Employment in the health care industry is down by more than half a million since February of 2020 and many are reporting feeling burned out, including medical school students who are just entering the profession.

Idaho hospitals are struggling to find enough staff in the latest pandemic surge. For health care facilities in expensive tourist areas, housing is the biggest challenge to finding new staff, according to administrators.

With hospitals around the state full, North Canyon is having a much tougher time transferring patients out who need higher levels of care. And the transfers are needed more frequently — about once per day.

Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen authorized hospitals statewide to use crisis standards of care if needed as many are buckling under the weight of an influx of COVID-19 patients.

More than 150 scientists signed onto a letter urging people in the Western U.S. to avoid fireworks this Independence Day.

Ketchum city leaders are considering immediate, short-term solutions to what they call a housing crisis.