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Idahoans United for Women and Families gave the Idaho Democratic Party $620,500, and days later the same Prop 1 ad aired on an Idaho TV station for half the price, so Stop Prop 1 leaders sued in Canyon County to pull it off the air. This week's report also covers a judge candidate who signed the petition that put Prop 1 on the ballot, the Idaho Supreme Court deciding whether parents wait 5 day...

Trump waived red diesel penalties, and Gov. Brad Little stopped state checks on dyed diesel for 30 days through November 8, right in the middle of harvest, as the Iran war pushes Idaho diesel to $6.41 a gallon. This week's report also covers two Canadians charged with voting in Idaho's 2022 election, the photos of the room where firing squads will execute inmates, Bryan Kohberger asking fo...

4 neighbors have legalized weed around Idaho, and now Idaho is fighting back with HJR 4 to block ballot legalization for good. This week's Midweek Report breaks down Idaho's last stand on weed — why the legislature says HJR 4 has to move now, who is pushing legalization at the ballot, plus Risch vs Achilles heating up, a 20-year plan for Idaho forests, the Timberline walkout, who is fundin...

JD Vance warns Idaho Democrats are prepared to pour millions into flipping Jim Risch's Senate seat — and this week's Midweek Report breaks down what that fight means for Idaho families.  Local Yocal Idaho brings you the Idaho news you need to know. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly Idaho news every Wednesday. 👍 Like and share if this story deserves more attention. 💬 Which story hit hardest this we...

ICE deported him once, and now he's charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old girl in Star, Idaho. Jose Lozano-Flores faces 8 felonies, is held on a $1 million bond and has an ICE detainer on him. So what does deportation actually mean if someone can just walk back across the border?  This week's Midweek Report also covers Trump asking the Supreme Court to speed up third-country deportations,...

Trump faces a lawsuit over armed ICE near Idaho polls — civil rights groups say it's voter suppression, DHS says it's only for warrants, and a judge could decide before early voting. This week's Midweek Report also covers a congressional candidate who pleads guilty but stays on your ballot, LDS leadership telling members to vote No on Prop 1, a $34K win for IFPC in the Boise bathroom f...

Post Falls Police just proved their ICE deal nets real results, turning two months of training into fifteen illegals arrested across Idaho's newest 287(g) partnership.  This week's Idaho Midweek Report also covers the census fight over noncitizens, Idaho's finalized Prop 1 ballot wording, and AG Labrador's ICAC Unit arrests of three predators, including a Heyburn police sergeant. ...

Idaho just let prison guards serve ICE warrants inside state prisons — expanding Idaho's 287(g) partnership statewide. This week's Midweek Report breaks down what the Idaho Department of Correction deal actually allows, plus the Idaho Supreme Court ordering a rewrite of Prop 1 abortion ballot language, Charlie Kirk's accused killer heading to a death-penalty trial, and a federal judge...

Idaho forces Meta to pay $127.7 million after Attorney General Raul Labrador proved Instagram hooked kids like slot machines—but does the deal actually protect Idaho families, or just look good on paper?  This week we also track how Trump's Postal Service cracks down on mail-in voting while two dozen states sue to stop it, count the ICE jets that keep leaving Twin Falls twice a week with over...

Trump just unlocked 45 MILLION acres for logging — reversing the 25-year Roadless Rule — but Idaho already won. We beat DC to it in 2008 with the Idaho Roadless Rule, so not a single new Idaho acre is in this fight. Why the rest of the West isn't so lucky.  That headline story leads a packed week. A federal judge who struck down part of Idaho's abortion law and the state's push to over...

A federal judge just gutted Idaho's abortion ban again — carving out a "health" exception that AG Raul Labrador vows to appeal. All of this while ICE arrests jump nearly 800% amid new Flock camera surveillance questions in Twin Falls.  This week's report also covers the Idaho GOP's new platform language targeting IVF and surrogacy, a sudden police chief retirement in Caldwell...

Post Falls says no to Flock cameras: Mayor Randy Westlund refuses to let his city become a surveillance state, even as private businesses buy license-plate tech without regulation.  This week's report also covers a Moscow attorney's long-shot fight to reopen Bryan Kohberger's case, a viral Eagle ICE stop that turned out to be lawful, and the increasingly competitive Risch-Achilles Sena...

A gunman opened fire at Twin Falls' brand-new In-N-Out Saturday — and two Idahoans ran toward the gunfire instead of away from it, helping stop him before more people were hurt. Three people are dead, seven wounded. This week's report also covers Trump's plan to make Idaho a center of the next nuclear age, the real reason Idaho's wildfires keep getting worse, and the Flock camera f...

Post Falls just joined ICE, becoming the first Idaho city to sign a 287(g) agreement—so which Idaho city could be next?  This week's report also covers ballot fights over cannabis/weed and abortion, a $2.6 billion data center rejection in Pocatello, Albertsons restructuring, a spreading parasite outbreak, nuclear energy buzz in the Magic Valley, and much, much more.  Local Yocal Idaho brings y...

Could Boise have stopped the Boise Greenbelt murder before it happened? This week's report exposes the suspect's violent past, plus Simpson's foreign labor dairy bill, Boise's Pride spending fight, and the abortion measure now heading to Idaho's November ballot. Local Yocal Idaho brings you the Idaho news you need to know. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly Idaho news every Wednesday. 👍...

Trump's DOJ warned Idaho election chief Phil McGrane he could face criminal charges over illegal voting, but McGrane and Idaho's AG fired back hard.  This week's report also covers residents suing over Flock surveillance cameras, Charlie Kirk's accused killer heading toward trial, and Idaho outranking Oregon and California as one of America's top states to move to.  Local Yocal...

Idaho led the nation on protecting girls' sports, and this week the Supreme Court agreed, ruling 6-3 that Idaho's ban on male athletes in women's sports is constitutional and ending a six-year legal fight.  This same episode also covers a citizen-led push that remove Idaho's abortion ban this November, a Boise family seeking damages after fireworks debris injured their daughter at...

Idaho's bathroom law just got blocked by a Biden-appointed federal judge — overruling the voters and legislators who passed it with overwhelming support. AG Labrador calls the ruling results-driven and vows to fight back, while Idaho also faces a Flock Safety surveillance lawsuit, celebrates America's 250th birthday, and a bull breaks loose at the Parma Inferno. Local Yocal Idaho brings yo...

AG Labrador takes Idaho's Medicaid fraud fight to Washington DC, pushing for federal data access to catch even more criminals stealing from Idaho taxpayers.  This week's report also covers Idaho's transgender bathroom law in federal court, who controls the Idaho GOP, Nampa's newly appointed mayor, a Caldwell police chief suing his own city, the Mountain Home fire investigation, and...

Congress cuts schools that teach gender ideology from federal funding, and Idaho already led the way — now the question is whether the Senate will finish what the House started.  This week's report also covers Idaho's record-breaking methamphetamine seizure, the deportation of 30 criminal illegals, a public land sale near the Tetons, and more stories shaping the state. Local Yocal Idaho br...

Nine Idaho Republican incumbents were ousted Tuesday night — and Governor Brad Little barely held on with just 51.7% of the vote, coming within 2,500 votes of the biggest political upset in Idaho history.  Idaho's GOP is resetting, and this week's report covers that and the news stories shaping the Gem State.  Local Yocal Idaho brings you the Idaho news you need to know. 🔔 Subscribe for w...

Brad Little holds Trump's endorsement and a $1.4M war chest, but seven GOP challengers say Idaho's governor campaigns conservative and governs moderate — and the May 19th primary puts that debate to a vote.  This week's report also covers the feds' scrapping Biden's public land grab, the Rathdrum mayor's resignation under a domestic battery probe, Boise State's Canvas c...

Idaho's ban on men in women's bathrooms now faces a federal lawsuit from the ACLU, who call it discrimination — we break down exactly why they're wrong.  From a $6.83 million criminal fine hitting Boise Cascade, to a Canyon County sheriff warning Idaho has shifted from a cartel destination to a distribution hub, a Governor's race shakeup with major union endorsements, and a former...

102,000 signatures now threaten Idaho's abortion ban as activists push to strip away protections for the unborn and force the question onto November's ballot.  Also, a Boise couple faces 200+ years in prison after mailing a 277-page kill list to thousands, 28 daycares lost state funding over fraud, and an Idaho sheriff resigned after running 1,000+ illegal searches on a private citizen&#39...

Idaho dairies destroyed a senator's livelihood for pushing immigration law enforcement, stripping her family of 85% of their income in an act of coordinated retaliation.  This week's report also covers an abortion ballot initiative gaining ground in Idaho, Governor Little dodging a gubernatorial debate ahead of the May 19th primary, and the two-year anniversary of Deputy Tobin Bolter's...