Suicide

A recent survey by the national nonprofit the Trevor Project found 42% of LGBTQ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year and young people of color face disproportionate mental health challenges.

New federal data show Idaho’s per-capita suicide rate was improving before the pandemic. But early numbers indicate that trend reversed in 2020. Idaho had…

Fallen pine cones covered 16-year-old Leslie Keiser’s fresh grave at the edge of Wolf Point, a small community on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation on the…

A new study underscores disproportionately high firearm suicide rates in rural areas, including across Idaho.The study, from gun control advocacy group…

States in the Mountain West have some of the highest suicide rates in the country. The public radio collaboration Guns & America has been looking into how…

Utah state Rep. Steve Eliason had a jarring wake-up call to the suicide crisis in his state in 2012. Several of his son’s middle school classmates died by…

Drifters Western Bar And Grill is a no-nonsense diner in a red wooden building just past the sign that welcomes you to Emida, Idaho. Elk and deer mounts…

In the rural Mountain West, where suicide rates are high and guns are everywhere, momentum behind one solution is growing: During a time of crisis, get the guns out of the house.

As the coronavirus forced people inside this spring and asked them to isolate themselves at home, in some case from loved ones and friends, experts across…

A new report says the rate of young people dying from firearm suicide in Idaho has increased nearly twice as fast as the rest of the nation over the past…