Dana Stevens

Apr 26, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Nathan Thrall |Bob Kustra |Jonathan Karl |Dana Stevens

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare when Abed Salama gets word that his five-year-old son’s school bus has collided with a semi-trailer. He rushes to the site but the scene is chaos, with children taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified.

Apr 15, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Tonya Mosley |Dana Stevens

Detroit native Diarra Kilpatrick has always wanted to share her version of the city with the world: "For me, the gems of Detroit have far outweighed some of the more challenging aspects of growing up there," the actor, writer and producer says. Kilpatrick's new BET+ series, Diarra from Detroit, is inspired, in part, by the time she spent as a little girl watching Columbo and Perry Mason with her grandmother.

Apr 15, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Ayesha Rascoe |Dana Stevens

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "SASQUATCH SUNSET")UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Oh.(SOUNDBITE OF THUMPING)AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:That is why you won't find me out in the woods in the Pacific Northwest in some sleeping bag, no matter how pretty the stars are. What you hear there is from a sasquatch. And I should know because I did a school project on them when I was a kid. One thing all my fourth grade research didn't cover was what a sasquatch's family life is like.

Apr 15, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Dana Stevens |Rachel Cohen

As snow begins melting in Idaho’s mountains, water managers are getting a better picture of what spring irrigation season might look like. It ended up being a pretty good snow year. That is, for southern Idaho, as Erin Whorton with the Natural Resources Conservation Service explained at a water supply meeting on Friday. “March was quite wet, especially in the southern part of the state," she said.

Apr 15, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Dana Stevens |Rachel Cohen

The Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University hosts an annual environmental conference. This year's program, on April 16, focuses on the risks and opportunities for Western public lands amid the clean energy transition. Last week, the Biden Administration announced it had surpassed its goal to permit 25 gigawatts of renewable energy on public lands by 2025. Several wind and solar projects are proposed in Idaho, including the Lava Ridge Wind Project in the Magic Valley.