BOISE – One state budget cut has been reversed, and just in time: A grant from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation will let Idaho high school students take advanced classes online this fall, removing new enrollment caps. The Idaho Digital Learning Academy, a state-run service that offers online courses at minimal cost to students across the state, has received a $100,000 grant as part of the foundation’s “Go On” campaign, which is aimed at raising Idaho’s dismally low rate of students continuing their educations after high school.

A Coeur d’Alene man cleared of racially harassing a Hispanic man last August was sentenced today to nine years in prison for being a felon in possession of a handgun.

Cuts 65 full-time jobs

Authorities say a southern Idaho farmer unknowingly watered and fertilized more than 300 marijuana plants while tending to his corn fields.

One state budget cut has just been reversed: The Idaho Digitial Learning Academy has received a $100,000 grant from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation that's allowing it to immediately lift unprecedented new enrollment caps on advanced courses offered online to Idaho high school students for the coming school year.

Search and rescue crews have recovered the bodies of four men who drowned in a southern Idaho reservoir after a prank turned deadly during a weekend boating trip.

Avista Corp. is making temporary changes to its power line operations as a result of dry conditions and wildfire risk.

A man who drowned in Lake Coeur d’Alene near the Carlin Bay marina has been identified as Harry R. Hulley, 82, of La Mirada, Calif.

BOISE – Idaho GOP congressional candidate Raul Labrador has ended an awkward dance with the National Republican Congressional Committee by agreeing to join its “Young Guns” candidate recruitment program, after refusing earlier. “With the election coming so quickly, I don’t want the NRCC changing our campaign themes and strategy,” Labrador said. “My campaign will reflect Idaho values, not the priorities of Washington, D.C.” But, he said, “After being assured they would not interfere with our campaign’s Idaho-focused strategy, I agreed to participate.”

Voters in the Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls and Lakeland school districts will go to the polls Aug. 24 to decide whether they’ll pay for the $9.5 million construction of a professional-technical high school on the Rathdrum Prairie.

A man who drowned in Lake Coeur d'Alene near the Carlin Bay marina has been identified as Harry R. Hulley, 82, of La Mirada, Calif.

Idaho GOP congressional candidate Raul Labrador has ended an awkward dance with the National Republican Congressional Committee by agreeing to join its "Young Guns" candidate recruitment program, after refusing earlier.

The Inland Northwest is getting a break from summer heat today through Wednesday as a pair of weak weather disturbances crosses the region.

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department said the body of an 82-year-old man has been recovered from Lake Coeur d’Alene.

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department says the body of an 82-year-old man has been recovered from Coeur d’Alene Lake. Authorities responded on Saturday after receiving reports the man’s car had been parked at the Carlin Bay Homeowner’s Association Marina for several days.

Police in the southern Idaho town of Mountain Home said a 2-year-old boy left in a running vehicle got out of his car seat and put the vehicle in gear and crashed through the glass doors and full-length window walls of a business.

When the staff at the Kroc Center in Coeur d’Alene heard last week that the local food bank desperately needed food to fill its shelves, they launched into action. They secured donation bins, designed posters requesting assistance, e-mailed all 20,000 of their members and purchased $2,000 worth of food to donate.

When the staff at The Kroc Center in Coeur d’Alene heard last week that the local food bank desperately needed food to fill its shelves, they launched into action.

A judge’s ruling to restore federal protections for the Rocky Mountain gray wolf has scuttled settlement talks between the parties involved in the lawsuit that had been scheduled for next week.

U.S. House hopeful Raul Labrador has reversed his decision and will join the National Republican Congressional Committee’s candidate recruitment and training program.