Domestic Violence

Each year, during the month of April, communities come together to raise awareness around issues of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Research shows that someone who survives being strangled once is 750% more likely to be murdered by the same person. The city of Nampa is trying to change that statistic and recently held training for police, doctors, prosecutors and survivors to stop this cycle of violence.

October is domestic violence awareness month, a time dedicated to the issue of abuse and creating change. Which is something that the Ada County Victim Services Center is focused on all year round.

KYMfest was founded to honor Kymberlee Larsen who died six years ago.

Ada County officials and its victim services partners cut the ribbon on a rededication of the Ada County Victim Services Center. The ceremony was, in part, an attempt to turn the page following a very public recent breakup with The Faces of Hope Foundation.

The Idaho Senate passed a bill that would provide unemployment benefits to victims of domestic violence and spouses of transferred military members.

Content warning: This article discusses domestic violence, abuse, mental health and other related topics. Want to talk to someone? Call 800-799-SAFE (7233) or text "START" to 88788

The horrifying news update on Gabby Petito – the cross-country traveler who was found strangled to death in a remote corner of Wyoming – became a national fixation and garnered worldwide media attention. But with Amy Butcher, author of a new memoir Mothertrucker, it quickly becomes very personal. When Butcher was in her twenties, she too toured the American West with her partner.

Idaho Matters checks in with Boise's Women's and Children's Alliance about a new program that aims to reduce domestic and sexual violence in Idaho.

This interview originally aired Nov. 17, 2020Between 1983 and 1997, dozens of women went missing across the Great Basin region. Some of them were found,…