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Gov. Brad Little of Idaho has signed into law a bill legalizing the use of a firing squad for executions when the drugs used for a lethal injection are unavailable.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law a bill allowing firing squads to execute death row inmates when lethal injection drugs are unavailable.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little this week signed legislation barring transgender students from using school facilities consistent with their gender identity.

Eastern Oregon residents are becoming increasingly more frustrated with the liberal politics of the western part of the state and are considering secession.

Idaho is moving toward reinstating execution by firing squad amid the student murders case against Bryan Kohberger, who could face death if convicted.

Bonner General Health noted “legal and political climate” in a state where trigger laws banned nearly all abortions after the fall of the constitutional right to them.

Idaho banned firing squads in 2009 but seems set to reverse course as drug shortages and botched executions hinder lethal injections.

A woman charged with conspiracy and murder in connection with the deaths of her two children and her new husband's late wife will no longer face the death penalty, a judge ruled Tuesday. Lori Vallow Daybell is scheduled to stand trial starting April 3. Both she and Chad Daybell — her newest husband — have pleaded not guilty to murder, conspiracy and grand theft charges in connection with the deaths of Vallow Daybell’s children — 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and Tylee Ryan, who was last seen a few days before her 17th birthday.

An Idaho judge ruled Tuesday that Lori Vallow, the Idaho woman accused of murdering her two children and her husband's late wife, no longer faces the death penalty if convicted at trial.

Biden’s waterway protections in Idaho and Texas were put on a pause by a federal judge. Republicans across the nation said the regulations were vague and may create financial burdens.

The state Legislature approved a bill allowing Idaho to execute inmates by firing squad with a veto-proof majority. The bill will head to the governor’s desk next.

The bill is headed to the governor's desk after passing the legislature with a veto-proof majority.

A federal court issued an injunction Sunday, partially blocking the Biden administration from moving forward with a regulation that would broadly redefine protected waters.

A bill that would allow Idaho to execute condemned inmates by firing squad is headed to the governor’s desk after passing the Legislature with a veto-proof majority.

Police killed a suspect involved in an Idaho armed robbery who also shot a hostage in Montana. One other suspect was taken into custody without issues.

Bonner General Health in Sandpoint, Idahox, announced that it was closing the hospital's labor and delivery department, blaming the political climate of the state.

An Idaho court unsealed dozens of heavily redacted documents Friday, granting only a peek into what police have gathered in the student murders investigation.

An Idaho court unsealed dozens of heavily redacted documents Friday, granting only a peek into what police have gathered in the University of Idaho student murders investigation.

Dylan Rounds, a teen farmer from Idaho who set out on his own in Utah and was expecting his first harvest when he vanished last year, remains missing.

Bryan Kohberger was allegedly awake at 1:30 a.m., bagging up his "personal trash" and wearing gloves when police burst in and arrested him on Dec. 30.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a study out Monday in Nature Climate Change.

Video captured in eastern Idaho shows an encounter between a moose and a group of snowmobilers. The man who captured it is grateful his brother jumped just in time.

When a horrific crime takes place on private property, landlords often have the address changed to reduce crime-scene tourism as well as negative stigma.

Defense attorneys for a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death have asked the Idaho Supreme Court to keep a gag order in place.

Pennsylvania State Police and the FBI raided Bryan Kohberger's parents' house in the Poconos and seized a trove of evidence, including his car, his phone and his DNA.

Law enforcement officials have revealed more details regarding items seized from the Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death.

A Pennsylvania court has unsealed additional documents in the Idaho student murders case and the arrest of suspect Bryan Kohberger in the Pocono Mountains.

Biden's administration recently finalized a Clean Water Act rule. A lawsuit was filed in a Texas court claiming the rules are too vague. Idaho joined the lawsuit recently.

The FBI recovered four medical-style gloves and a silver flashlight last year when they searched the Pennsylvania home of the parents of the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students.

Idaho Senator James Risch, a Republican, introduced the Pregnancy Center Security Act to give grants to pro-life pregnancy centers for security upgrades after pro-abortion attacks.

A draft bill in Idaho would allow firing squads if lethal injection is unavailable. A December execution was called off when the state couldn't get the drugs.

The federal agency that oversees Medicaid suggested Idaho wasn't trying hard enough to reach beneficiaries before letting their coverage lapse. Consumer advocates fear that could happen again.

Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger could face death by firing squad if he is convicted of murder and a bill introduced this week clears the state legislature.

Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger could face death by firing squad if he is convicted of murder and a bill introduced this week clears the state legislature.

The editorial board of The Idaho Statesman is ripping a new bill introduced in the state legislature that would require school board candidates to declare a party affiliation.

University of Idaho officials say the house where four students were stabbed to death in November will be demolished.

A lawyer warns that the case against Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger could be compromised because of sources leaking information in the investigation.

The home was donated to the University of Idaho by its owner after the killings, the school said in a statement.

Some top Idaho officials are raising alarms after the state's Republican attorney general declined to join a 24-state lawsuit against Biden administration waterway protections.

Police reportedly found pictures of one of the four University of Idaho student murder victims on suspect Bryan Kohberger's phone after his Dec. 30 arrest.

Nebraska lawmakers are considering a bill which would allow healthcare providers to refuse service based on ethical or religious beliefs.

An Idaho bill would criminalize transporting a minor across state lines to seek an abortion as a violation of the state's existing human trafficking law.

Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger is no longer enrolled at or employed by the Washington State University, where he was studying for a Ph.D.

An Idaho judge did not rule on Lori Vallow's request to have her murder case dismissed based on speedy trial grounds Thursday.

PayPal CEO and president Dan Schulman is retiring from the company and will leave at the end of 2023.

The Idaho prosecutor handling the murder case against student stabbings suspect Bryan Kohberger filed new documents Wednesday in a Latah County court.

Church deacon Gabriel Rench won his legal case against the City of Moscow, Idaho, after he was arrested in 2020 for alleged COVID-19 violations during an outdoor hymn sing.

The Satanic Temple plans to oppose a proposed Idaho bill that would prohibit sex-change surgery and drugs for minors by holding a ritual at the state Capitol.

The Biden administration took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open the door to future hunting in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.

Grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains may be stripped of its federal protections now that the population has recovered from overhunting and trapping.

Serial killer BTK says he can relate to Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's time behind bars awaiting court proceedings. It's "very lonely."

Acting substitute teacher Ettson Arreola allegedly forced students to fight in a classroom in Caldwell, Idaho, and recorded the violence for social media.

OpenAI acknowledges shortcomings in its tool for spotting synthetic text but says it's stronger at dealing with outputs from more recent AI models.

A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station employee who told her, “I don’t serve Black people.”.

Latah County prosecutors turned over hundreds of pages of documents to Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's defense this week, court records show.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little wins a lawsuit against a public encampment outside the Capitol Annex he said had turned violent, and contrasts Idaho from Portland and San Francisco.

Idaho lawmakers have introduced a joint resolution that would it more difficult to get initiatives on the ballot. If approved, voters would be asked to change the state’s constitution.

Twenty-two regional and national news organizations have formed a coalition to ask a judge to narrow a gag order in the case of a man accused of killing four University of Idaho students.

An Idaho judge says a couple accused in a bizarre triple murder case will not be allowed to meet face-to-face to talk about strategy before they stand trial in April.

Investigators seized stained bedding, strands of what looked like hair and a single glove when they searched the Washington state apartment of a graduate student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death.

The man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students will have a preliminary hearing in late June, when prosecutors will try to show a judge that they have enough evidence to justify the felony charges.

The top state courts in conservative Idaho and South Carolina have gone in opposite directions on challenges to abortion bans.

Court documents have been unsealed after the suspect in the November fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students made his first court appearance in Idaho.

Authorities say the DNA of the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students was found on a knife sheath recovered at the crime scene.

The man accused in the November slayings of four University of Idaho students is has arrived in Idaho, where he is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary.

A criminology graduate student accused of the November slayings of four University of Idaho students agreed Tuesday to be extradited from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested last week, to face charges in Idaho.

The family of a man arrested in the slayings of four University of Idaho students is expressing sympathy for the families of the victims.

A suspect arrested in connection with the slayings of four University of Idaho students plans to waive his extradition hearing so he can be quickly brought to Idaho to face murder charges.

An arrest has been made in the November fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students, a case that shocked the small college town and seemed to perplex investigators for weeks.

Authorities in Pennsylvania have arrested a suspect in the killings of four slain Idaho students, Moscow, Idaho Police Chief James Fry said Friday.

A 14-year-old Idaho girl has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after prosecutors said she and a friend both tried to kill her friend’s stepfather.

Police are asking for help finding the occupant of a car that was seen near where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death last month, saying that person could have “critical information” about the case.

As hundreds of students mourned together inside the University of Idaho’s stadium Wednesday night, family members of four slain classmates urged them to raise their eyes from grief and focus on love and the future.

Ten days after four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their rooms, police said Wednesday they still have not identified a suspect or found a murder weapon, and they continued asking for tips and surveillance video.

Authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students as they slept say detectives have looked extensively into information that one of the victims had a stalker and have not been able to verify it.

Police and a county coroner say four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a rental house Sunday were stabbed to death in their beds and likely were asleep.

Autopsies have been completed on the bodies of four University of Idaho students who were found dead inside a rental house near campus on Sunday, and the results show that all of them were stabbed to death.

Police in the college town of Moscow, Idaho, say they have not identified a suspect or found a weapon in the weekend slayings of four University of Idaho students in a rental house near campus.

Police say the killer or killers who stabbed four University of Idaho students to death remains at large, and the violence has prompted many students to leave town.

The mayor of the small town where four University of Idaho students were found dead on Sunday said the event was senseless and a reminder that acts of violence can occur anywhere.

This week's total lunar eclipse is the last one for three years.

An Idaho man who volunteered to join the Ukrainian military has died of a shrapnel wound sustained during a Russian attack in Luhansk.

Idaho's top wildlife official says the state's wolf population appears to be holding steady despite recent changes by lawmakers that allow expanded methods and seasons for killing wolves.

An Idaho judge has banned cameras from the courtroom in the high-profile triple murder case against a mother and her new husband, saying he fears the images could prevent a fair trial.

The University of Idaho's plan to build the nation’s largest research dairy and experimental farm has cleared a big hurdle.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says a $15 billion investment in a new semiconductor plant by Boise, Idaho-based chipmaker Micron in its hometown is a step in protecting the United States from the vulnerabilities of a globalized market made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

At the first few Boise Pride Festivals roughly three decades ago, Joseph Kibbe and his friends had to hide their faces and were greeted by protesters holding nooses.

Micron will invest $15 billion though the end of the decade on a new semiconductor plant in its hometown that the chipmaker said will create 17,000 American jobs.

State governments flush with money are returning billions of dollars to their residents.

Three more Republican-led states banned almost all abortions this week.

A federal judge has barred Idaho from enforcing a strict abortion ban in medical emergencies, clearing the way for hospitals to continue treating ectopic pregnancies and other pregnancy-related complications normally for now.

A five-year review by U.S. officials has determined that Endangered Species Act protections for ocean-going salmon and steelhead that reproduce in the Snake River and its Idaho tributaries must stay in effect.

Attorneys for a mother charged with conspiring to kill her children and steal their social security benefits have asked a judge to send the case back to a grand jury because they say the current indictment is confusing.

The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge this week to bar Idaho from enforcing its near-total abortion ban while a lawsuit pitting federal health care law against state anti-abortion legislation is underway.

The Biden administration has filed its first legal challenge to a state abortion ban since the end of Roe v. Wade with a case that could allow hospitals to keep giving women abortion-related medical care in serious medical situations.

In deeply conservative Idaho, it's expected that abortion will be banned eventually, but abortion rights advocates are continuing their legal challenges.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit that challenges Idaho’s restrictive abortion law, arguing that it conflicts with a federal law requiring doctors to provide pregnant women medically necessary treatment that could include abortion.

The Idaho Republican Party will consider 31 resolutions at its three-day convention, including one already adopted by Texas Republicans that President Joe Biden isn’t the legitimate leader of the country.

Across the U.S. West, rural residents have historically faced barriers in accessing abortion, such as long travel distances and lack of transportation.