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Back in January, some food bank officials started warning about the end of a COVID-era program that sent extra support to food stamp recipients. They expected a lot of people in our region to have a rough spring, and that's playing out now - especially with inflation driving food prices higher.

Idaho Matters takes a look at the news that made headlines this week, including the verdict of the Lori Vallow Daybell trial, how the Fentanyl crisis is affecting Idaho and why volenteer numbers are dropping everywhere except the Mountain West.

In April, Boise State Public Radio learned an independent investigation tasked with probing the racist agenda of a retired Boise Police Captain had tapped out of allotted funding – approximately $500,000. But now, Boise Mayor Lauren McLean tells us the public will soon learn the results of that investigation.

If you're a fan of the Boise Foothills you'll want to check out the most recent addition to the areas trails, located in the Hawkins Range Reserve. The added space gives the public official access to 393 acres of new recreational land.

Now that its springtime, many people will start to see baby birds hatching in the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area. And one nonprofit is working to help the birds and educate people about the land that the raptors are living on.

Across America, only half of the women, infants, and children who are eligible to access the WIC nutrition program are actually getting the healthy foods and education that are available to them. In Idaho, that ratio is even worse with just 40 percent of this vulnerable population accessing the WIC program.

Idaho Matters takes a look at the news that made headlines this week, including an update on a former Boise City Council member who is working to get her seat back, a look at the student mental health crisis and why North Idaho College could lose its accreditation.

While we still struggle with cases of COVID-19 and its variants many are looking back over the past three years to figure out what we did right and what we did wrong, with an eye toward the next global outbreak of a virus.

Last month ProPublica reported on trips made by Clarence Thomas and whether the supreme court justice had properly disclosed them. The reporting raised questions about what kind of gifts Thomas and other justices can accept and raised questions about judicial reform.

Parents of newborns like to keep their babies close using what’s known as body-worn baby carriers, but a new study coming out of Boise State’s Babi Lab says not all of those carriers are created equal and some may have troubling effects on your baby’s hips.