Tuesday · July 28, 2026 — Boise, Idaho

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The Archive · 24 issues

Back issues

Ironman returns Saturday — and Highway 21 goes dark

After ten years away, the 70.3 comes back to Boise on the hottest morning of the summer.

The water tower comes down for $90,000 jobs

The Boise Factory Outlets die this week — and what replaces them isn't retail.

480 acres of Meridian farmland goes to a July vote

The Fields would add nearly 900 homes near the Nampa line — and the council holds the binding gavel.

Sweeney Todd opens outdoors — and the box office went dark

The Idaho Shakespeare Festival's 50th-season crown jewel wants you on the phone, not the website.

Boise arms itself to ration your lawn water

A new Drought Emergency Ordinance hands the mayor the power to restrict watering — after a winter that barely snowed.

The Village lands Apple — and the mall keeps emptying east

80,000 square feet of new space, six buildings, and the tenant everybody's been waiting on.

Slice House bets Boise will pay San Francisco pizza prices

A 13-time world champion's fast-casual brand lands near-$50 pies — and a five-star crowd keeps paying.

The Greenbelt just got a hard legal line

An emergency ordinance passed June 30 draws a clear boundary between a pedal-assist e-bike and a 30-mph electric motorcycle — and the clock started July 1.

Free symphony, 100+ drones, fireworks: Ann Morrison Saturday

The America 250 Fourth of July is sequenced to the minute — here's how to not miss any of it.

The Astros bought Brandon Nigh out of Garden City

Twenty-four games. A 1.116 OPS. Memorial Stadium is now a legitimate MLB audition stage.

Twelve hours, six stages, one planning trap

The Boise Music Festival returns Saturday — and the 5 PM no re-entry rule is the detail that will ruin someone's night.

Boise needs density. It can't afford what density requires.

One June 16 council meeting put the city's central budget contradiction on the table — and left it there.

The council voted 4-3. Here is what that means for your commute.

How last Tuesday's public process changes your actual Tuesday in Boise.

The Jains are closing Spice — and handing over the recipes

Meridian's best-kept Indian kitchen is retiring, not folding — and the cookbook means the food outlasts the address.

The June 18 edition

Rodgers is out. The blueprint just changed.

Boise State's top portal addition underwent surgery Monday — and the defensive system Leon Rice built around him has no clear answer yet.

Soft Landing's clean-label soft serve earns the drive

The Fourcins built a dessert shop without seed oils or HFCS — and now they're taking it to Eagle.

The names that matter aren't the ones the wire leads with

From The Blue, why a Mountain West season is decided at the bottom of the roster, not the top of the highlight reel.

Iration brings the roots back to Outlaw Field Friday

Guitar-forward, all ages, foothills at dusk — and parking fills before the gates open.

Two Broncos the Pac-12 still hasn't scouted

A lockdown corner recovering from a spring injury and a true freshman with a highlight already — Boise State's Pac-12 debut will hinge on internal…

We keep measuring the wrong thing

Dani Breck on the number that doesn't mean what you think it means.

The last open rehearsal before Pac-12 opens for real

Saturday's Spring Game is BSU's final public audition — and the real competition isn't at quarterback.

We keep measuring the wrong thing

Dani Breck on the number that doesn't mean what you think it means.

Steelheads draw the Americans — here's what that means

Boise's ECHL team just posted its first-round playoff schedule. The wire won't tell you who's actually stopping pucks.