Boise State Public Radio (Boise, ID)

1 day ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Joel Rose

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes. Copyright 2025 NPR

1 day ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Patrick Adams

For close to two decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development has partnered with countries around the world to combat neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs. The term refers to a group of diseases that affect more than a billion people, causing severe pain, disfigurement, disability and in some cases death. They'rereferred to as "neglected" because they disproportionately affect populations living in extreme poverty and thus don't attract investment from the pharmaceutical industry.

3 days ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | James Dawson

An Idaho businessman tapped to become the new leader of the U.S. Forest Service faced little questioning over his past land disputes with the agency during his confirmation hearing. Michael Boren, who co-founded the multi-billion dollar investment firm Clearwater Analytics, has sparred with the Forest Service in recent years over his ranch in central Idaho. The property is within the protected Sawtooth National Recreation Area.

3 days ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Vincent Acovino

More than 18,000 video games came out last year. And developers are getting creative with YouTube and Instagram to get more people interested in their games.

3 days ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer

"They f*** you up, your mum and dad," Philip Larkin once memorably wrote. "They may not mean to, but they do."Now surely the great British poet and novelist, who died three decades ago, did not set out to sum up the books coming out this week, but his famous line does a rather effective job of it anyway.