Idaho House Bill 195 deserves a big “Say what?” It would criminalize picketing or demonstrations on a public street or sidewalk in front of a … Read more

Governments often fail to protect the health and safety of citizens during catastrophic weather events. Read more

Blaine County and its cities are fast losing their institutional memories. Read more

Even if it hasn’t been published, every newspaper in Idaho has an obituary for Idaho’s salmon somewhere in its files. Stop the presses and don… Read more

Anyone who ever wondered what the phrases “tying yourself up in knots” and “gaslighting” mean need look no further than U.S. Senate Minority L… Read more

Every argument in the book against housing for people with jobs is on the record somewhere within the Wood River Valley. No new or persuasive … Read more

Idaho’s U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch are at a crossroads of conscience. Read more

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—AOC for short—is an outspoken Democrat from New York City. Read more

It’s time to set aside frustration, if only for a few minutes at a time. It’s time to look up and look out at our famous Sun Valley blue skies… Read more

Put on your crash helmets, here come the COVID-19 coronavirus mutations. Read more

Appointments that would have squelched the Voice of America and other media outlets were reversed in the first hours of the Biden administration. Read more

Inexcusable chaos in the delivery of COVID vaccine to Idahoans over the age of 65 began over the weekend. Read more

A north Idaho State Representative declared this week that the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Of the 1,681 Idahoans who had died at that time, she… Read more

Margaret Brennan’s interview of former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx for the Sunday morning show “Face the Nat… Read more

Nothing has changed since the Idaho Fish and Game Commission decided in 2019 to eliminate Blaine County from areas where wolf trapping is allo… Read more

The answer to the question of what divides Americans today may be this: new appliances, granite countertops, expensive furniture and home decorators. Read more

To turn the page to a more peaceful future, Americans must make solid efforts to tone down rhetoric and seek bipartisan following the inaugura… Read more

A verse of the state’s official song reads, “And here we have Idaho / Winning her way to fame.” Read more

Weeds of criminal conspiracy, anarchy and despotism cannot grow in inhospitable ground. Like all weeds, they seek out fertile soil to find the… Read more

All of us will have to resist marching toward tyranny if America’s political culture is ever to return to its democratic norm. Read more

District 26 Rep. Muffy Davis, D-Ketchum, should not have been forced to go to court to be able to do her job safely and represent the district. Read more

The President of the United States has been insisting that America follow him into the Twilight Zone. Wednesday, that’s where we found ourselv… Read more

The mob attack on Congress on Wednesday left only questions in its wake, questions that need to be answered quickly in order to resecure the C… Read more

The stolen-election crazy train has been driven by some Republicans in Congress. Remember their names because they should be held accountable … Read more

With a cure for the pandemic in sight, Americans have had enough of sitting on the sidelines. It’s time the federal government enlisted Americ… Read more

As Americans experience the first day of 2021 today, most of us will not engage in the traditional practice of setting resolutions for this new year. Instead, we will substitute hopes for resolutions.

It’s on us.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to twice refuse to list the wolverine as an endangered species is a personal insult to the people of the Wood River Valley.

At the winter solstice, when cold, dark nights are the longest, comes a season of hope. After what seems an eternity of dark and cold, there are reasons for Americans to embrace the sensation.

Those begging, pleading and urging Idaho’s Republican legislative leaders to postpone the Legislature’s winter session should step back and reconsider.

People going to the Ketchum post office may risk getting more than holiday packages and Christmas cards.

The good news about this week’s national flap over how the wife of the president-elect should refer to herself is that there has been an ocean of outrage to counter an op-ed screed published by the Wall Street Journal.

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over, but it looks like its final chapter has begun. That chapter will celebrate the remarkable scientific achievement of development of a vaccine in an astonishingly short time. The vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech, was shipped this week just nine months after the p…

None of this is normal. Normal would be taxpayers getting the results they ask from the representatives they pay to do the jobs they were elected to do. Something else is happening now.

It sounds like the city of Hailey is working toward increasing the supply of workforce housing. However, no matter how well-intended, its efforts will fail if it relies only on increasing the supply without controlling the price of rentals and other workforce housing.

Joe Biden can’t officially take over as president of the United States until Jan. 20. Given the damage being done as the current administration both resists a smooth transition and makes damaging last-minute decisions, he should announce some cleanup plans right away.

More than a month after the election, Idaho’s two senators and two representatives are still part of an undistinguished majority of Republican elected officials so cowed by the rants of the defeated president that they will not do the honorable thing and acknowledge that Democrat Joe Biden i…

It can be the best of ski seasons. Or it can be the worst. It’s up to you and only you.

The election is over, but the false narrative created by President Donald Trump’s outgoing administration is still going strong. That narrative will burrow into the American system and fester for decades, infecting voters’ trust in democracy, unless reality can dig it out.

Here we have Idaho, rife with novel coronavirus, cases climbing, deaths mounting—and public hearings packed with people who assert that the virus doesn’t exist or that being required to stay away from others and wearing masks are assaults on their personal liberty.

Sun Valley’s ranking as the number one ski resort in the nation by SKI Magazine readers has been a long time coming. Yet, it’s no less sweet or well-deserved. Real towns, real people, a versatile mountain and a down-to-earth feel are what readers said they appreciated.

Thanksgiving celebrates the bounty available to early European settlers in North America because of the generosity of and lessons learned from the indigenous people who befriended them.

The list of essential workers to whom Americans are indebted is a long one this Thanksgiving. When the pandemic is over, the everyday people who fought the crisis with everything they had will go down in history as American heroes.

Idaho top elected officials have refused to hear what citizens say about sticking a 200-foot eyesore of a cell tower in the shadow of the Sawtooth Mountains near Red Fish Lake. Their refusal was arrogant and contemptuous of the public.

Joseph R. Biden won the 2020 presidential election. That fact is incontrovertible. So why do millions of Americans doubt the veracity of this result, especially while accepting all the other results on the same ballots?

Gloom, doom, sleep, repeat. This has been the drumbeat of life within the U.S., which has more COVID-19 coronavirus cases than any nation in the world. This week, hope arrived with the news of two highly effective vaccines that could become available in the months ahead.

When the Twin Falls City Council rejected a mask mandate Monday night, the difference between that city and most cities in Blaine County could not have been starker.

Appreciating the reality of the American political system will make the next four years way easier than the last four. It begins by understanding why this is not “a deeply divided nation.”

Monday morning quarterbacking is a great pastime for football pundits and sidewalk supervisors. It’s a stunningly bad idea in the middle of a pandemic.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has steadfastly refused to impose a statewide mask order to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Now the number of cases in the state are at record levels and climbing. Hospitals are sending up SOS signals and announcing that they soon will be overwhelmed.

National changes that should be made too often happen slowly, if at all. Google founder Eric Schmidt noted at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that dire circumstances can bring “10 years of change instantly.”

The Idaho Department of Lands has decided to desecrate the views near Redfish Lake in exchange for $30,000 a year.

Last week, President Donald Trump issued an order that could throw the federal government into chaos, leave agencies in shambles and put the nation on the road to fascism.