Hansen passed away earlier this month. Hansen lay in state Tuesday morning inside the Idaho Capitol. Friends, families and former peers spent time paying their respects to a man that served in the ...

Orval Hansen and his son, Jim Hansen, during a camping trip in the Sawtooths in August 1973. Provided by Frank Church Papers, Special Collections and Archives, Boise State University Library Former ...

Two books, just hitting the stores this week, offer great last-minute gifts for political junkies. Retiring Idaho Chief Justice Jim Jones has written the quintessential story of the Idaho water ...

The memorial of Wilson Rawls depicts Billy Coleman and his dogs from “Where the Red Fern Grows.” Rawls wrote the book when he ...

Former three-term Idaho Congressman Orval Hansen has died at the age of 91. A Republican, he was noted for helping establish the Idaho National Laboratory, and for working with fellow Idaho ...

BOISE — Former Republican U.S. Rep. Orval Hansen represented Idaho’s 2nd District for just six years beginning in 1969. But they were six key years — shaping the future of this state’s nuclear ...