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Few candidates for House and Senate seats in Idaho have large amounts of campaign dollars, but incumbents have an advantage from prior races.

The Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill that would make it a crime for most employers to require a coronavirus vaccine.

The measure forbids Idaho school districts from rerunning a bond election for 11 months, if failing to reach the 66.67% supermajority

(Idaho Capital Sun) — It’s a pandemic, and the Idaho Legislature is about to lose the only medical doctor left in its chambers. Rep. Fred Wood, R-Burley, told the Idaho Capital Sun on Jan. 21 that he plans to retire. Wood attended medical school at Tulane University in New Orleans and trained as a physician […]

Major legislation to bring school districts employees’ health care coverage up to the same standard as that of state employees passed the Idaho House Monday

Rep. Joe Palmer on Monday introduced a proposed new law to forbid any local government in Idaho from regulating fees or deposits for residential rental property

Republicans fighting vaccine mandates argue that natural immunity makes vaccination unnecessary.

The new Florida law forces private businesses to let workers opt out of COVID-19 mandates if they can prove immunity through a prior infection. However, the CDC says unvaccinated people who had been infected months earlier are five times more likely to get infected again than fully vaccinated people who didn't have a prior infection.

Republicans fighting President Joe Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandates are wielding a new weapon against the White House rules: natural immunity.

But how much immunity COVID-19 survivors have depends on how long ago they were infected, how sick they were, and if the virus variant they had is different from mutants circulating now, epidemiologists say.