Members of the House and Senate health and welfare committees have a lot on their plates this session as they’re being tasked ...

Idaho’s federal funds to expand child care access haven’t even been spent yet, because the state didn’t dole out the money to providers.

Idaho Health & Welfare is defending its handling of a Nampa infant death case after parents Brian Lemke and Allysen Armenta ...

Idaho Medicaid administrator Juliet Charron testified before the Senate Health and Welfare Committee on House Bill 345 on March 10, 2025, at the Idaho Capitol Building in Boise. (Pat Sutphin for the ...

Two Republican state lawmakers have asked the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to not spend federal funds to expand child care availability until the state boosts fraud oversight measures. The ...

IDAHO - The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is projecting a budget shortfall of $60 million for Medicaid services, according to the department's recent 2026 supplemental budget request. Without ...

BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service has issued an update regarding SNAP benefits for Americans amid the federal government shutdown. In the Gem State, ...

A court order will allow Idaho to enforce a state law that bans people from changing the listed sex on their birth ...

Idaho is one of 50 states awarded more than $100 million in federal funding to invest in its rural health infrastructure for the coming year, with additional awards to arrive through 2030. The Center ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has appointed the state’s top Medicaid official to oversee the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Little on Thursday nominated Juliet Charron to become the director of ...