Public News Service

Measuring homelessness in Idaho is hard when it's in plain sight, and it's even harder when it's hidden. Hidden homelessness is a term describing people who may be couch surfing, living with relatives, or living in their vehicles with no stable housing of their own. Idaho nonprofits are doing their best to provide resources for people with nowhere else to turn.

With Idaho's snowpack the lowest on record in some areas, scientists are warning this may be a glimpse of what's to come. Idaho reached maximum snowpack on March 30th, with some areas reaching it in mid-March. But this usually happens in early April. Boise State University geosciences professor Alejandro Flores calls this a historic snow drought, with a "triple whammy" hitting the state and the western U-S.