ID Government

Some Idaho government employees are already using generative artificial intelligence.

Soon after the State Board of Education began talking about restricting diversity, equity and inclusion programs on campuses, Nick Koenig and other University of Idaho students began fanning out.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is asking for another $108 million to pay Medicaid mental health contractors.

Rebekah Scott, a mental health counselor in Nampa, was late for rent for three months.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare in 2025 will reopen applications to the Idaho Child Care Program with a lower income eligibility cutoff and a waitlist.

Nearly six months after a water curtailment order sent shockwaves through Idaho’s agricultural community, farmers ratified a new long-term water agreement, the two sides confirmed late Thursday.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is seeking federal approval to end a pandemic-era program that let Medicaid pay family members to care for people with disabilities.

Idaho voters roundly rejected Proposition 1 on Election Day, stopping a measure that would have transformed the state’s elections. With more than 850,000 votes counted as of 8 a.m. Wednesday, only 30.3% of residents had voted yes — and more than two-thirds voted no. Shortly before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, the initiative’s proponents, Idahoans for Open Primaries, admitted defeat. “We are full of ...