Idaho's natural resource agencies face significant challenges as impending budget cuts threaten wildfire management and water quality amid a worsening drought.

This Idaho Capital Sun story is the next in our series focused on the impacts of additional 1% and 2% budget cuts to state ...

A new round of across-the-board state budget cuts in Idaho will force a state agency to reduce the water monitoring it ...

The cuts to the Department of Lands arrive at the same time the state’s wildfire suppression fund is at a low point. As of Monday, the fund's balance sits at about $2.8 million, down from balances ...

State natural resource leaders say proposed state budget cuts could cause impacts in the summer months amid heightened risk of wildfires.

This week, we did something a little differently than we ever have before at the Idaho Capital Sun. After spending the last five years, day in and day out, covering as many Idaho legislative ...

At the state Tax Commission, the Idaho Capital Sun reports it is estimated the cuts will significantly delay refunds to taxpayers. The Sun reported it could take months for the commission to process ...

The Bellevue City Council approved a second amendment on Monday to the city’s agreed-upon scheduled with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality for ensuring safe drinking water.

Conservation groups have informed two Idaho cities they intend to file lawsuits over repeated Clean Water Act violations at ...

The flood event that struck the Coeur d’Alene River Basin around Dec. 11, 2025, was unusual, not because flooding itself is ...