Former Boise lawmaker Hy Kloc dies at 75

This Thursday, Feb. 2, the Fettucine Forum will be hosting an event that looks at the history of queer spaces throughout Idaho, beginning in the 1970s. The lecture will explore where and how LGBTQ+ members found one another, built community and ultimately found a home right here in the Gem state. Dr. Lisa McClain and Boise State University graduate student, Rachel Taylor, joins Idaho Matters to talk more about their upcoming forum.

Boise State Public Radio turns 45 years old this year, and we continue to grow, adding new staff and a new translator in Pocatello and KLCZ in North Idaho. Our General Manager, Tom Michael, sat down with Morning Edition host George Prentice to more about the state of the station, including the past and future of Boise State Public Radio.

House Republicans signed off on a bill Monday to withhold sales tax revenues from cities and counties that refuse to enforce or investigate felony crimes in Idaho. The genesis of the bill from Rep. Bruce Skaug (R-Nampa) focused solely on the state’s abortion ban, though he eventually introduced a new version that applied to all felonies.

A new play at the Morrison Center in Boise explores some of the themes that came out of the Salem Witch Trials in puritan New England in 1691. The play is called “Afflicted: Daughters of Salem” and it looks at some of the events leading up to the trials. Cast member Karen Fichtman, Stage Manager Emily Oquist and director Jamie Nebeker sat down with our George Prentice to talk about the play.

When director Jamie Nebeker was asked to consider mounting Afflicted: Daughters of Salem at the Danny Peterson Theater in the Morrison Center at Boise State, she was struck by how a story rooted in the Salem Witch trials of the 17th century had such contemporary relevance. “Women's rights in our...

On Friday, University of Idaho president Scott Green made an emotional plea to lawmakers for an additional million dollars to help the school recover costs responding to the murder of four students in November. In front of the Joint Finance Appropriation Committee, Green asked budget writers to approve Gov. Brad...

The shooting at the Boise Towne Square Mall in 2021 caused shock and anger in the Treasure Valley after Jacob Bergquist shot and killed two people, including a security guard. He later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after firing at Boise police. A new investigative report from the Idaho...

Restoring ecosystems is no easy task as we try to repair some of the damage humans have done to planet earth. And food production can be very hard on nature, especially if those practices don’t take whole ecosystems into account. Author and agroecologist Nicole Masters has made a study...