By Ben Olson Reader Staff With New Year’s Eve falling midweek this year, The Hive is hosting “Nearly New Years,” a double-header music extravaganza featuring two nights of great regional bands. The ...

Over the last thousand or so years, the rituals and traditions surrounding Christmas have been solidified in our minds as perfectly ordinary, though they’re anything but. In reality, if you tried to ...

By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Riding a surge in population from 2021 to 2023, there are now more than 2 million people living in Idaho, according to numbers reported Dec. 19 from the ...

Nobody knows who wrote the first letter to Santa Claus, but the practice didn’t catch on in mainstream America until a con artist named John D. Gluck became intertwined with this seemingly innocent ...

By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Commissioner-elect Brian Domke has rejected an appointment to serve out the remainder of current Dist. 1 Commissioner Steve Bradshaw’s term — which ends Monday, Jan.

By Soncirey Mitchell and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff So, it’s less than a week until Christmas and Hanukkah and you’re looking for last-minute gifts even though you swore you’d be on top of ...

By Ben Olson Reader Staff For the uninitiated, Festivus is a holiday invented for an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld called “The Strike,” which involves the airing of grievances; feats of strength; a ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist A few years have passed since we’ve last explored artificial intelligence. The last time I wrote an article dedicated to the subject was in 2018, and the scope ...