Kathy Hedberg

For someone who likes to cook and enjoys good food, I can’t figure out what gets into me when I go on a road trip. It’s not that the four-hour journey to Boise is such a stretch that a person couldn’t make it without pigging out on junk food all along the... See more

I was a senior in high school in 1972 when Title IX became law, barring discrimination based on gender in any school program or activity. Ours was a small high school with limited funding and no sports program of note. But we girls on the Council High Sch... See more

A program to help farmers who were hurt financially in 2025 is expected to give some smaller producers a boost. But the lion’s share of the $12 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance Program announced by the Trump administration in December is aimed toward cott... See more

Fall-planted cereal grain crops in north central Idaho and southeastern Washington got off to a good start this year due to plentiful rainfall and warm temperatures late in the season. But if a cold snap hits the region in the next few weeks without adequ... See more

It’s three days into the new year, which is one day longer than many New Year’s resolutions last. But it’s not too late to take stock of the past year — 2025. Isn’t it amazing that we’ve lived 25 years past the “2001: A Space Odyssey” movie, which led us ... See more