Essential and unprotected: Idaho farmworkers
While panicked Americans run to grocery stores to stock up on food, vulnerable farm workers run to work.

Whether farmworkers are working in the fields, dairy farms or packing plants, their labor is essential to the food supply industry. However, farmworkers are said to be one of the […]

OPINION: From one college graduate to another: we’ll be OK
It might not have been what we expected, but everything is going to work out

One week ago, we were supposed to be dressed in oversized robes, with so many pieces of regalia around our necks we would be suffering from strained muscles for weeks.   It didn’t happen, for so many good reasons.   But that […]

Increased COVID-19 testing goals announced for Idaho
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare employees shared details in press conference with Gov. Little

If all priority groups were tested weekly, approximately 150,000 tests per week would be needed, Ball said. He said the main problem to reaching this goal is access to testing products, but technological improvements and new testing devices are being introduced weekly that will help the state reach the recommended capacity.

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Unknowns make UI Library’s planning difficult
University of Idaho’s library explores what online services, such as expanded e-book access, could continue in the fall

University of Idaho’s library has provided online-only services since the COVID-19 pandemic led Idaho colleges to close campuses. It’s unclear what the changes at the UI Library will look like […]