Doug Belkin covers higher education and national news out of the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal.

Driven by climate chaos, Lesser Goldfinches abandon the south and conquer the north. Warm cities and rivers act as launchpads ...

The Idaho State Board of Education is elevating a Boise State University official to serve as the school’s interim president, ...

Idaho State University's Physician Assistant (PA) program has achieved its highest-ever ranking, securing the 26th spot among ...

Charges were field Tuesday against an Orem man after police said they discovered several homemade bombs in the man’s vehicle and apartment. Eric Whitaker, 41, was charged with 75 counts of manufacture ...

The Idaho State-Civic Symphony concludes its landmark 90th season, “Echoes of Time and Place,” with an emotional finale titled “Memories and Mysteries” on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in ...

A judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors can pursue the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger if he is convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students ... by the state in providing evidence.

Bryan Kohberger, who was studying criminology at another university nearby, faces trial later this year in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. By Mike Baker and Nicholas ...

BOISE, Idaho — A judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors ... Kohberger was a criminal justice graduate student at Washington State University, in Pullman, about 10 miles (16.1 kilometers) from ...