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Archive coverage tagged Idaho. For the dated policy tracker, see the Idaho state page.
9 articles · Dec 31, 2025 – May 13, 2026
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States Newsroom reports a Boise family of medical providers is leaving Idaho over the criminal transgender bathroom ban, seeing it as a severe attack on human dignity.
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After the governor signed into law a bill to reinstate cut Medicaid mental health programs, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced it would start…
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District 9 Representatives are: John Shirts (208) 550-3190, Judy Boyle (208) 355-3225, and Senator Brandon Shippy (208) 332-1325.
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A man in his 40s, who had severe mental illness and lived with his family in the Boise area, died recently after Idaho cut critical mental health services, according to…
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A former patient of an Idaho program that sought to keep people with severe psychosis on their medication has died, providers said. It was the third death since the…
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The 36-year-old man had severe schizophrenia, but he was healthy as long as he took his meds. For about six months, Medicaid was paying nurses from an Idaho Falls…
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Idaho opened Headwaters Behavioral Health Center in Idaho Falls in late November, marking completion of a multi-year effort to bring intensive inpatient mental health…
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BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on a challenge to Idaho’s law banning transgender women and girls from participating in sports that…
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The Idaho Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit from a bidder for an Idaho Medicaid contract to run mental health services.
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