Death

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…

The U.S. hit a horrific milestone this week: More than 3,000 COVID-19 fatalities in just one day. But rising deaths do not necessarily translate into…

The negative health effects of loneliness.How to talk to kids about school shootings.Little houses that also help seniors.Efforts to preserve Idaho's…

We told you this week that the heroin epidemic much of the country is experiencing has not yet reached Idaho but that it could soon. However, some people…

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…

A study by a Nobel Prize-winning economist made national headlines last week for saying middle-aged white Americans are dying at increasing rates while…

A 5-year-old girl is dead after police say another 5-year-old accidentally shot her at an eastern Idaho home.Lt. Bill Guiberson of the Chubbuck Police…

More Idaho babies are being born outside of marriage than ever before, and the state's marriage rate is at a 60-year low, that's according to a recent…