A campaign to restore abortion access in Idaho has gathered more than 110,000 petition signatures — well above the roughly 71,000 needed to qualify — and organizers say roughly 28 percent of those signatures came from registered Republicans in a state President Trump carried by nearly 37 percentage points last year. The Reproductive Freedom and […]

The Trump administration this week warned Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane that election officials could face criminal charges if noncitizens cast ballots in the 2026 federal midterm elections — part of a nationwide campaign by the Justice Department to pressure states on voter roll compliance. The Warning Letter A seven-page letter from the Justice […]

A sweeping overhaul of the federal food stamp program is set to shift billions of dollars in costs onto state governments beginning in fall 2027, putting the fiscal future of SNAP in question for tens of millions of Americans who depend on it. The changes, enacted through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, represent the […]

Idaho’s Democratic nominees for governor and state superintendent of public instruction are taking their campaigns to eastern Idaho this weekend, scheduling back-to-back public events in Pocatello and Idaho Falls. Terri Pickens, the Democratic candidate for governor, and Dr. Becky Sundin Mitchell, running for state superintendent of public instruction, will appear together at both stops. The […]

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador has joined a coalition of 49 attorneys general urging the Federal Communications Commission to close loopholes that allow scammers to flood Americans’ phones with illegal robocalls — a problem that cost consumers an estimated $2 billion last year. A Shifting Threat For years, scammers relied on illegal “spoofing” — disguising […]

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s office submitted closing briefs this week in Seyb v. Members of the Idaho Board of Medicine, a federal lawsuit challenging Idaho’s Defense of Life Act and marking the latest courtroom battle over the state’s abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs ruling. The Case The lawsuit was brought […]

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador has joined a nearly nationwide coalition of state and territorial attorneys general calling on federal regulators to close loopholes that allow scammers to weaponize legitimate phone numbers for robocalls and fraudulent text messages. The coalition — spanning 48 states and territories — filed a formal request with the Federal Communications […]

A retired Air Force major general who once called herself a Republican is mounting an independent bid for Idaho’s First Congressional District, taking on four-term incumbent Rep. Russ Fulcher in what would be an exceptionally rare upset if successful. Sarah Zabel, who moved to Idaho in 2020 after a three-decade military career and subsequent work […]

A campaign finance concern is drawing renewed attention in Idaho and beyond: so-called “pop-up” political action committees that form late in an election cycle, spend heavily, and dissolve quickly — leaving voters with little information about who actually funded the effort until the ballots are long counted. The structure exploits a gap between disclosure timelines […]

John Stegner, a retired Idaho Supreme Court justice with 25 years on the bench, formally launched an independent campaign for Idaho governor on Tuesday, positioning himself as an alternative to a field that already includes incumbent Republican Gov. Brad Little and several other challengers. A Judicial Career Turned Campaign Stegner’s path to the courtroom began […]

Idaho Republican Party delegates voted at their state convention to update the party platform to call for the complete elimination of property taxes, setting up a potential major policy debate heading into the next legislative session. The move reflects growing momentum among conservative activists to end a levy that many view as fundamentally at odds […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that children born on American soil to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country are citizens at birth, delivering a setback to Idaho’s attorney general and two dozen other Republican attorneys general who had urged the justices to restrict birthright citizenship. Background: A Day-One Executive Order […]