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Maria Weeg, Director of Community Engagement for the City of Boise, is a glass-half-full person by her own admission. That said, her latest challenge is fielding questions from … well, someone like me over the founder of the Potato Drop saying, “F*** yea,” and high-fiving his fireworks operator after a Boise Police...

A fireball ascends from the first atomic artillery shell in history, tested at the Nevada Test Site in 1953. Radiation from the test site fell across the West, including in Montana and Idaho. (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress) The Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program clinic from Intermountain...

It’s cheaper to buy a home than to rent one in most American markets — but not in the Boise metro, a new report has found. That doesn’t mean Ada and Canyon counties are affordable for renters earning an average paycheck, according to ATTOM , a national real estate data and analytics firm. ATTOM compared the monthly...

BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — The Idaho Department of Corrections is searching for a walkaway. Jerimee RyanSeamans, 35, walked away from his job site and was last seen at 9:03 a.m. Sunday near the Boise Airport. He is described as 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing about 210 pounds, with...

BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — Anime fans and families flocked to Animart, a small vendor market in Boise, for a weekend of cosplay, 3D printing, and Japanese arcade games. The event, held at 3143 N Cole Rd, ran from Saturday, Jan. 24, to Sunday, Jan. 25. Attendees enjoyed dressing up as anime characters and trying their luck...

BOISE — At this town hall, there was no heckling nor heated debates on campaign issues. Instead, legislators from opposite sides of the aisle came together at Boise State's Student Union to ponder one uniting theme: the "common welfare," as referenced in the preamble to the Idaho State Constitution, before turning...

A man was killed and another man was detained in a deadly shooting at a busy intersection in Meridian on Sunday. In an email sent at 2:06 p.m., Meridian Patrol Lt. Brandon Frasier said that officers were “on the scene of a shooting near 195 E Corporate.” “I can confirm one adult male is deceased, and the male who...

Here are the four major retail chains shrinking their Idaho footprint in February. The Headline: A sharp reduction in Nampa and Post Falls. Video game retailer GameStop is starting 2026 with a significant "fleet optimization" strategy that includes closing over 400 stores nationwide. Idaho is taking a direct hit in...

According to the Meridian Police Department, the incident was reported to Ada County Dispatch by multiple 911 callers at approximately 12:30 p.m.

When it comes to elk in Wyoming and Idaho, it could be a case of different places, same problem. Idaho’s elk herds are booming, but hunters complain they can’t get on private land to hunt them. In one instance involving 100 elk that won’t budge from private ground,...