Two firefighters were killed and residents were ordered to shelter in place, but the order was lifted after police found a ...

Thirty years after wolves were brought back from near extinction in the U.S. Rocky Mountains, the state of Idaho is back in ...

Idaho’s growth rate was 1.5%, which was the seventh-highest in the nation, the release said. Natural growth (births minus deaths) made up just 20% of the state’s population increase.

Another interesting tidbit is that Idaho’s population growth peaked in 2021 at about 52,000 new residents and has since dropped to about 24,000 per year in 2023 and 2024.

In November 2022, the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students horrified residents of Moscow, a quiet college town that hadn't reported a murder in five years. The students – Ethan ...

Idaho’s population grew by 1.5% – or around 30,500 people – from 2023 to 2024, based on estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau in July of those years.

With an increase of 30,497 people in the last year, the Idaho Dept. of Labor said Idaho’s population has continued to grow faster than the United States as a whole.