Idaho

The audit found counties are accurate in counting votes, but there is room for improvement in efficiency

In new book "When the Moon Turns to Blood" journalist Leah Sottile explores extremism and religious beliefs of Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow, a couple accused of killing their two children in Idaho.

This week the Idaho Supreme Court heard arguments on who in the state has the power to commute a death sentence to life in prison.

In North Idaho drug overdoses and deaths have been increasing, including three overdoses at the end of May. Health officials say all three people survived thanks to intervention, but say the presence of a much more potent opioid, fentanyl, is putting more people at risk.

Financial officials in Idaho are objecting to a change in the way influential credit ratings agency S&P evaluates the state’s creditworthiness.

Early returns Tuesday night showed Idaho’s current House Speaker, Scott Bedke, leading the three-person field in the Republican primary for the lieutenant governor’s seat.

For much of the night, Little led the crowded Republican field by a sizable margin.

Debbie Critchfield is poised to win the Republican primary for Idaho’s Superintendent of Education, defeating incumbent Sherri Ybarra. Ada County Clerk appeared poised to win the nomination for Secretary of State. Attorney General incumbent Lawrence Wasden is now trailing Raúl Labrador in the Attorney General's race according to preliminary election results.

Without action from Congress, waivers that provided free school meals for children across the country will end this summer.

Reclaim Idaho, the group behind the state's Medicaid expansion initiative, has gathered enough signatures to place an initiative that would raise funding for education salaries and programs.