North Idaho health officials on Tuesday identified the state’s first confirmed measles infection in a resident since 2023.

Panhandle Health District (PHD) has confirmed a case of measles in an unvaccinated child in Kootenai County, the first in an ...

The health district says the confirmed infection was found in an unvaccinated child in Kootenai County. The case is the first ...

An unvaccinated child in Kootenai County has been reported to have measles. Panhandle Health District reports the case is the ...

The case also marks the first confirmed measles case in the Idaho Panhandle since 1991, according to a news release Tuesday ...

UPDATE: No one seconded the motion to vote on a mask requirement in the Panhandle Health District. As a result the motion failed. HAYDEN, Idaho - Around 100 protesters have gathered outside the ...

Hayden, Idaho. -based Panhandle Health District is in the process of ending its home health services after over 55 years due to staff shortages and lack of funding, Shoshone News-Press reported ...

More concerning is the Panhandle Health District is seeing a rise in hospitalizations. The COVID-19 hotline in the district is receiving an average of 500 calls a day, most are people wanting to ...

News Idaho Panhandle Health District reports hundreds of backlogged COVID-19 cases Aug. 27, 2021 Updated Fri., Aug. 27, 2021 at 10:55 p.m. Kootenai Health photographed on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 in ...

This year, they’re getting some help. The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded them $1,000,000, which will be given to the health district over the next three years.

The Panhandle Health District Board of Health, which serves Kootenai, Benewah, Boundary, Shoshone and Bonner counties, passed a mask mandate Nov. 19 for the five-county district.