Idaho Matters

You’ve heard that the older you get, the harder it gets to sleep at night. It turns out that may actually be true. 

There are wastewater treatment plants in every major city designed to filter out some of the chemicals and drugs that end up going down our drains, but there’s another way this kind of treatment takes place.

Volunteers are planting sagebrush seeds north of Emmett with Idaho Fish and Game biologists to help mule deer survive. 

A bill that would make 11 changes to the program, including a lifetime cap on benefits and work requirements, made it through the House but has stalled on the Senate side, but two more bills are floating around the statehouse, which lawmakers say would reform the program and save taxpayers money.

Since 1979, the numbers of these huge birds of prey have dropped by 50%, and they’re disappearing from the shrubby habitat of southwest Idaho.

Get ready to leave dry land behind in Beth O'Leary's latest romance. 

You may have noticed that the price of vanilla has skyrocketed in the past 10 years, which has been a boon for vanilla farmers, but it's also created some problems. 

A complaint was recently filed against Boise State University and its football coach, Spencer Danielson over claims of "religious coercion" in the colleges football program. 

We sometimes hear in the news of a large financial gift left to an organization after someone dies, but you don’t have to be a multimillionaire to leave a bequest to a charity or to family members, and it happens more often than you might expect.

When a person becomes unable to care for themselves, family and friends often step in to provide the care they need. But what happens when that person doesn’t have any family or other support network?