Margaret Carmel

One of downtown Boise’s most prominent streets will soon be permanently designed for pedestrians and cyclists, not cars. On Tuesday, the Boise City Council gave its nod of approval for a new design for the two blocks of 8th Street between Main and Bannock Streets. This second phase of construction in the area will finish […]

Garden City's march upwards will continue. At the end of June, the Garden City City Council unanimously voted to approve a seven-story, 110-unit

A third, higher proposal for increasing the salaries of Boise’s mayor and city council members moved ahead this week. On Tuesday, the Boise City Council split 3-3 in favor of a proposal from City Council Member Jimmy Hallyburton to increase wages for city elected officials by 9% in 2026, another 4% in 2027, and 3% […]

A retired BPD Captain is taking his claim he was illegally retaliated against by the City of Boise to a higher court. Earlier this year, a federal district judge dismissed former BPD Internal Affairs Captain Tom Fleming’s lawsuit against the City of Boise alleging he was pushed into retirement in 2022 as retaliation for his involvement […]

If you thought the Idaho Transportation Department headquarters wasn’t going to be a topic during the 2025 legislative session, think again. On Thursday, the State of Idaho released a 200-page estimate report conducted by local architecture firm CSHQA on how much it would cost to return the ITD headquarters on State Street to a condition […]

At this point, most Americans will think of Tom Hanks, the volleyball named Wilson and the film "Castaway" if I ask them to name a story about someone stranded on

Two new sports stadiums, one for professional soccer and the other for baseball, could be coming to Garden City. On Wednesday, the Ada County Commissioners took two steps toward upgrading and building new sports facilities on the more than 200-acre Expo Idaho site. This included the auction of 27 acres of the housing the shuttered […]

It doesn’t take much to land at a motel in Boise these days. Aimee Cartier, her husband Nic Dockstrader and her father-in-law Wendell Dockstrader were comfortably renting a house on the Central Bench a little over a month ago when their world got turned upside down. The landlord offered them 30 days to either move […]

Idaho’s highest court will soon decide if the decision to allow Interfaith Sanctuary to move to State Street will stand. The Idaho Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Veterans Park Neighborhood Association’s lawsuit against the City of Boise over the Boise City Council’s approval of the Interfaith shelter’s new State St. facility. The council […]

Idaho’s only Indigenous tribe without a casino of its own is asking the national and state governments to give a proposal for a Treasure Valley casino the thumbs down. Last week, the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation on the Idaho-Nevada border put out a statement pushing the Biden administration and Governor Brad Little […]