Idaho Legislature

(Runtime 00:49)A new law in Idaho gives health care professionals the right to refuse care based on personal beliefs or principles.It says, in part, that…

(Runtime 3:22)Phineas Pope:  Tracy Simmons is the executive director of Favs News, a digital journalism startup covering religion. She's also a professor…

(Runtime :59) New legislation could require the Bible to be read every morning in public school classrooms across Idaho. One of the bill’s goals is for…

(Runtime 3:49) Julia Keleher had spent about a decade helping other transgender people access health care that affirms their gender identity before they…

(Runtime 1:10)Idaho is one of the last states in the West resisting the fight to legalize cannabis.Every state that touches Idaho, except Wyoming, has…

Cornerstone Cottage opened in 2016, in Post Falls, Idaho. The facility looks like a residential home, but is one of many in the “troubled teen industry,”…

Idaho’s direct care workforce isn’t being paid enough to sustain the needs of people with disabilities and seniors, according to a February report by the Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations.

In the months following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, many people — including patients, health care providers, and abortion rights organizers — faced extreme changes in their lives and livelihood. These are some of the changes that took place in our region since then.

Community care providers that serve people with disabilities across Idaho started receiving funds they had originally expected in July late last month.

(Runtime 4:01)Every day, when Lorie Ewing wakes up, she has a job she knows she’ll be doing from 8 a.m. until the time she goes to bed: caretaking for her…