Death

Earlier this year, a young family's newborn baby unexpectedly died, and despite there being national standards for death investigations, Bonneville's county coroner did not order an autopsy.

Dealing with the loss of a loved one is never easy, even when you know it's coming. Which is why some families choose to enlist the help of a death doula.

Health care advocates are sounding the alarm on rising infant and maternal mortality rates in Idaho.

U.S. life expectancy was already lower than other high-income nations and the gap was widening before 2019. Since then, things have gotten worse. New research found that in 2020, life expectancies here dropped disproportionately for marginalized, racialized populations. Especially for Native American and Alaska Native groups

You've heard about the scarcity of a place to live in Boise. You should probably also know that more families are snapping up cemetery plots. And they're not dying to get in. They're snapping them up for ... well ... let's just say the future.

Chris Bruton said his dad got sick in 2017 and just never got better. "He had fatigue and we didn't know what it was," he said. By January 2018, they had…

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For the last decades of the 20th century, death rates were declining for most Americans. But so far in 21st century Idaho, that's not happening.Last week…