ELECTIONS
News and insights about the candidates and issues on the ballots in 2026
Bond and levy eIections were a mixed bag. And West Ada voters sent a mixed message in a pair of highly contested trustee races.
Mountain View School District Superintendent Alica Holthaus went through a roller coaster of emotions looking at election results Tuesday night: surprise, elation, and confusion. Holthaus is overseeing the first school district deconsolidation in Idaho in nearly two decades as Mountain View prepares to split into the Grangeville and Clearwater Valley school districts next year. Clearwater […]
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Meghan Brown said her victory shows West Ada made a mistake by ordering a teacher to remove the “Everyone Is Welcome Here” poster.
Dean Dimond’s homemade signs and overreporting on spending are testing state campaign protocol.
PACs on both sides of the aisle are now involved in the West Ada trustee races.
Seven school districts seek more than $3.3 million in supplemental levy funds to pay for special education services.
The four trustee candidates in Kuna shared their thoughts at a Q&A on Wednesday.
A PAC that received a large out-of-state donation spent $6,773 to support the two incumbents.
