North Idaho Archives - Broadcast QA3

After a pandemic-related surge, behavioral telehealth is losing momentum

Patients and politicians hailed telemedicine at the beginning of the pandemic — first for its safety but also for its increased convenience and potential to extend care to rural areas and neighborhoods without specialists — but hints of skepticism are creeping in.

What will Idaho’s Main Streets look like post-pandemic?

What will Idaho’s Main Streets look like once the pandemic is contained and people feel comfortable enough to return to their everyday rhythms so disruptively interrupted by COVID-19?

Guest opinion: Legislators should represent the people — or lose their next election

Our Idaho Legislature is dysfunctional. The legislature’s purpose is to represent the citizens who elected them, not the lobbyists for businesses or social organizations or a political party, but Idaho Citizens. This fact seems to be forgotten when they enter the Capitol Building and are placed in committees headed by chairpersons with the power to kill any bill that comes before them without asking the committee if they agree.

'Sell to a local.’ Frustrated by house hunt, Montana man takes to the streets

BOZEMAN, Mont. — A Bozeman business owner frustrated by the city’s nearly impossible housing market took his search to the streets last week with a sign begging people to sell him their home.

Mountain America Credit Union Gifts Over 2,200 Winter Coats to Idaho Kids in Need

POCATELLO, Idaho, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain America Credit Union is gifting more than 2,200 brand-new winter coats to students in the Pocatello School District. On February 10, Mountain America, in partnership with Operation Warm, distributed over 200 coats to students at Tendoy Elementary School, and an additional 2,000 coats will be given to children in need at other Pocatello schools.

City Council approves zoning change for development near canyon rim

TWIN FALLS — City Council approved a zoning district change Monday for a proposed residential development near the canyon rim.

Lights, camera, action in the wilderness: Yellowstone filmmakers weigh in on judge's ruling halting fees for commercial filming

To capture unique footage of a grizzly bear romping in the snow or a bald eagle swooping in to claim a morsel in Yellowstone National Park, Gardiner-based filmmaker Bob Landis has always been required to purchase a permit from the National Park Service.

Divided Idaho House OKs fed child care aid

BOISE – The Idaho House voted 40-30 on Monday to accept $24 million in federal child care aid from the December COVID relief act, while an opponent argued the money wasn’t needed and the pandemic is “waning.”

Idaho bill would allow people to obtain driving privileges regardless of immigration status

BOISE — A bill to allow all drivers in Idaho, regardless of their immigration status, to obtain driving credentials after the proper training course was introduced Friday in the Idaho Legislature.

Idaho Department of Correction to reduce budget for out-of-state prisons and county jails

The coming fiscal year’s budget includes a 10.3% reduction in funds allocated to house convicted inmates in county jails and out-of-state prisons.