A total of 13 Oregon counties have voted to secede from the state and join neighboring Idaho, as part of what supporters have dubbed the "Greater Idaho" project.. On May 21, Crook County backed ...

The idea for a “Greater Idaho” began more than a year ago when McCarter, a 74-year-old former firearms instructor from La Pine, Ore., became disgruntled with the state’s liberal leanings.

Citizens for Greater Idaho, ... McCarter also noted that voters had approved Measure 113, a measure meant to prevent legislative walkouts. Over the past few years, ...

The 11 Oregon counties that have approved exploring the “Greater Idaho” concept (blue) and still-undecided Wallowa County (yellow). Similar to the “Greater Idaho” movement, the “Lesser ...

FILE - The Idaho State Capitol in Boise, Idaho, is seen on June 13, 2019. Keith Ridler / AP. The proposal would add tens of thousands of square miles of rural eastern Oregon into Idaho ...

Supporters of Greater Idaho want to leave dark blue Oregon for redder pastures. Since 2020, 13 counties in eastern and central Oregon have voted in favor of joining their neighbor, Idaho. The proposed ...

The "Greater Idaho" movement has been slowly but surely securing wins across eastern Oregon and in the Idaho legislature. So is Oregon about to get a lot smaller?

Former Oregon House Speaker Mark Simmons penned an op-ed in the Idaho Statesman, a daily newspaper, over the weekend to explain why he supports the so-called Greater Idaho movement, which seeks to ...

The Greater Idaho movement has garnered a lot of headlines in recent months. It's a fresh effort based on a very old argument, and it faces a lot of challenges. This post originally appeared in ...

Eleven rural counties in eastern Oregon have voted to begin discussions on how to join Idaho, one of the most reliably red states in the U.S. – a move that would redraw boundary lines and ...

The Greater Idaho debate has been around since 2020, sparked when people in southwestern Oregon created a petition to move Idaho’s border west to include part of their counties. This move to ...