Federal Government

America’s constitutional system of checks and balances has endured for more than two centuries. This is due, in part, to two unwritten political norms:…

The federal government has been in a partial shutdown for 25 days, as of Tuesday. We look at the impact on government services and the employees who…

In December of 2015, the City of Boise shut down a tent camp for people experiencing homelessness called Cooper Court. Since then, the city has moved…

It’s a hot August afternoon and Maria sits in a car in a Kuna parking lot. The air is on a little but the engine’s not running so it doesn’t do much good.…

For much of the 20th century, private and public enterprises worked as both partners and adversaries to drive economic growth in our country. But in…

A committee of Idaho lawmakers tasked with looking at the possibility of acquiring federal lands - and putting them under state control - has issued a…

Something unusual happened Thursday near Newdale in eastern Idaho. The Department of Defense detonated more than 200 pounds of explosives deep underground…

Update, Oct. 17, 9:23 a.m.Associated Press:Three of four of Idaho congressional members cast votes in opposition to the hard-fought legislation that ended…

It looks like the federal government will shut down Tuesday since Congress hasn’t passed a spending bill.It’s hard to gauge how that might impact Idaho,…

More than half of Idaho’s land is considered public. These are lands that are managed by federal agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management and the…