Idaho | The Spokesman-Review (2024)

Steve Symms, a Republican who represented Idaho for four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and two terms in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. He was 86.

Four years ago, Idaho had 17 locations where victims could receive sexual assault exams, and only three of them had nurses trained in sexual assault forensics.

Former Idaho U.S. Sen. Steve Symms died Thursday. He was 86. Flags flew at half-staff Friday for the former Canyon County fruit farmer who represented Idaho for two decades: four terms in the U.S. House and two in the Senate. First elected to Congress with no political experience in 1972, the Republican went on to challenge high-ranking Sen. Frank Church in the 1980 election, toppling him in ...

Idaho residents lost access to p*rnhub, a popular adult entertainment site, earlier this summer, the result of a new law that requires such websites to verify the identity of users. Several states have passed similar laws in the name of protecting children, but critics say it raises privacy concerns. In response, p*rnhub simply blocked its site in many states, including Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, ...

When fire officials received reports of smoke and flames near a popular Idaho lodge on a mid-July afternoon, they sprang into action. Within days, nearly 200 people were working on the blaze in the Sawtooth recreation area, dubbed the Bench Lake Fire. As crews dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of lake water from aircraft, carved out fire lines and arranged hoses to protect the historic ...

BOISE – In the months since a hangar collapsed at the Boise Airport, there’s been a question of blame.

The lead attorney for Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, now will simultaneously lead the defense in a second high-profile North Idaho capital murder case. Anne Taylor, Kohberger’s top public defender, was assigned Wednesday to head up the defense for Skylar Meade, according to court records obtained by the Idaho Statesman. The ...

Funded by private organizations, Idaho is giving Idaho foster families passes to Idaho’s 30 state parks.

“IKEA is coming to Idaho!,” exclaimed the headline on a news release. Well, not quite. The Swedish furniture giant is dipping its toes into the Gem State not with a retail store, but with a service center that it says will bring more affordable delivery options to Idahoans. Previously, it could cost hundreds of dollars to ship hefty items from the nearest IKEA over 350 miles away in Draper, ...

A 37-year-old man who last year, according to court records, tried to pass himself off as 15 years old and had sex with a 13-year-old girl will likely spend the next 20 years in custody.

Police encouraged neighbors of a Kuna house on North Katsure Avenue to evacuate last weekend after explosive material was found.

A federal judge on Friday expanded a temporary block on an Idaho law for all incarcerated people in Idaho prisons diagnosed with gender dysphoria and receiving hormone therapy.

A Coeur d’Alene woman intends to take legal action against Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris over alleged comments he made to her during a public forum in April, but some have differing accounts of what actually happened.

Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane is preparing for the open primaries/ ranked-choice voting ballot initiative to appear on Idaho’s Nov. 5 election ballots, even as Attorney General Raúl Labrador advances a lawsuit attempting to block the initiative.

A newly released Office of Police Accountability report called a deadly Boise police shooting in January 2023 justified, but it also had several recommendations for what officers should have done differently leading up to the incident. Eli Nash, 32, was on parole for crimes involving possession of sexually exploitative child material and was under investigation by the Boise Police Department ...

Colter’s Creek Winery was destroyed by the rampaging Gwen fire during its rapid growth Thursday and its owners said they will now leave the winemaking business.

Nearly a half century ago, Greg and Leah Sempel began scratching a living out of land that almost nobody wanted. Now the state of Idaho has made their simple life awfully complicated.

Starting Aug. 1, Idaho state parks will pause new reservations for 2025 for the rest of this year as state officials switch to an upgraded reservation system.

Two weeks after a wildfire ignited near a beloved Idaho recreation area, threatening campsites and a historic lodge, fire officials publicly acknowledged that the blaze was human-caused. The Bench Lake Fire, which had grown to 2,500 acres and was 58% contained on Friday, started on July 11 near the namesake string of lakes about a mile from the west shoreline of Redfish Lake in the Sawtooth ...

The “Gwen Fire” prompted evacuations near Juliaetta, Idaho, and has remained unchanged as of Friday.