Environmental issues, especially the drive to demand the federal government turn over all of its land to the state, are playing a role in the key primary election races in Idaho.

TWIN FALLS — Anyone who cares about Idaho’s open spaces will learn something from “To Think Like a Mountain,” Niels Sparre Nokkentved’s fourth book. N.S. Nokkentved was a reporter for ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Guest Opinions Environmentalist agenda: Friend or foe to the environment ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited the Idaho State Capitol on Wednesday to launch the "Make America Healthy Again" campaign ...

BOISE, Idaho — The director of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality said Friday that the agency needs money to clean up or contain past mining waste. John Tippets told the Legislature's ...

In an address Jan. 16 at an event organized by the Idaho Environmental Forum, ... a forecast of the environmental issues that may surface during the 2019 Idaho legislative session.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An environmental group and Idaho officials have reached a tentative settlement over toxic discharge from an abandoned silver and lead mine in central Idaho near one of the ...

NAMPA, Idaho — The air quality for the Treasure Valley is currently considered red or unhealthy due to wildfires burning in surrounding areas, according to the Idaho Department of Environmental ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - UPDATE 8/25/21: The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has lifted an Air Pollution Forecast and Caution to notify residents of Bonneville, Butte, Clark ...

The 21-square-mile Bunker Hill Superfund Site was designated by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1983, following a 1970s mining disaster: When a fire damaged the bags in its smelter ...

Environmental Group Wins 20-Year Idaho Lease to Protect Landscape From Livestock Grazing. A bid of $8,200 won the grazing lease on 620 acres in central Idaho.