North Idaho College has exactly one year left to return to good standing, or it will lose accreditation per federal rules. A final report this fall could be its last chance.
The Idaho Legislature approved two bills that would define sex as either “male or female” and block government entities from compelling employees to use preferred personal titles or pronouns that don’t correspond with people’s biological sex.
A bill to require Idaho public and school libraries to move materials deemed harmful to children, or face lawsuits, passed the Idaho Senate and House on Wednesday.
Lawmakers in Idaho are once again blocking efforts to consider environmental damage in investment decisions, with the help of outside lobbying groups that have links to the oil industry. Idaho is one of several conservative states with bills this year aimed at prohibiting investment practices that use ESG, or “environmental, social and governance” factors. The practice has grown in popularity ...
The Idaho House of Representatives voted 53-15 on Friday to pass a new immigration bill that includes lengthy passages that were copied and pasted word-for-word from a controversial Texas law that is tied up in legal challenges.
The Idaho House of Representatives voted 53-15 on Friday to pass a new immigration bill that includes lengthy passages that were copied and pasted word-for-word from a controversial Texas law that is tied up in legal challenges.
Idaho’s Senate State Affairs Committee on Friday advanced two bills related to changing Idaho’s legal definition of the word “sex,” and protecting public employees from discipline if they refuse to use a pronoun that doesn’t align with an individual’s birth sex.
Mar. 29—On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union and law firm Cooley LLP filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in favor of a U.S. District Court decision that stayed the enforcement of Idaho's Defense of Life Act, which prohibits abortion. The brief was filed in Idaho and Moyle et al. v. United States. The case will determine if the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act ...
Idaho senators voted down a program that could have helped feed more than 136,000 low-income kids this summer with millions of dollars in federal funding. Far-right Republicans in the Senate argued the government should not be a charity and said they worried about families becoming reliant on welfare. More than two-thirds of the Senate voted against funding the meals. For years, Idaho ...
BONNERS FERRY – The retirement of Boundary County Sheriff Dave Kramer at the end of this term has left the field open for three candidates running for the position in a competitive Republican primary.
Idaho Democrats called on Republican legislators on Friday to introduce legislation that would stop the departure of OB-GYNs, create health exceptions for pregnant women in the state’s abortion ban, and protect access to in vitro fertilization services, all of which have not been addressed during this legislative session.
A bill to ban Idaho public funds from covering gender-affirming medications and surgeries for Idaho adults and children heads to Idaho Gov. Brad Little for final approval.
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Idaho Statesman. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. School districts across Idaho will soon receive hundreds of millions of dollars to help repair and replace their aging buildings, thanks to a bill that cleared its final hurdle in the Idaho Senate on ...
Thirty people, including library staff, board members and patrons testified in person and virtually at a Senate State Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday morning to voice their opinions on the Legislature’s most recent library bill – House Bill 710.
An effort to expand capital punishment in Idaho died when a bill that sought to make lewd acts with children under age 12 qualify for the death penalty failed to earn enough support for a Senate floor vote. The bill’s sponsor pledged to try again next year.
In a 4-3 vote Thursday morning, Idaho lawmakers on the Senate State Affairs Committee voted to move a bill forward that would prohibit transgender and nonbinary Idahoans enrolled in Medicaid, or state employees enrolled in the state’s insurance plan, from obtaining gender-affirming care.
The House on Wednesday passed a controversial bill to restrict materials children can view at libraries, the fourth iteration this year of a bill to crack down on books that Republicans deem are “harmful” to minors. Proponents of the bill, House Bill 710, have argued it’ll keep graphic sexual books out of the hands of children, while opponents have said those books already aren’t placed in ...
Pedophilia. Child sex trafficking. Increased child molestation. Arguments in favor of an Idaho bill to restrict obscene library material to children seemed familiar to those following conspiracy theories. Several supporters of a bill to allow lawsuits against libraries in public hearings have cited unfounded concerns about sex traffickers who “condition” children through books or the ...
