Boise has waited 10 long years for this. Jaialdi is back and will be bigger than ever, starting Tuesday, July 29, and running until Sunday, Aug. 3. The COVID-19 pandemic sidelined the ...

For the first time in over a decade, thousands of people from around the world will gather in Boise’s Basque Block to celebrate Jaialdi. The six-day festival honoring Basque culture through food, ...

At Jaialdi’s Sports Night, feats of strength take center stage, from wood chopping to hay bale tossing to lifting stones weighing hundreds of pounds. But for one Boise family, the spectacle is more ...

BOISE, Idaho — A Basque journalist was denied entry to the United States at a German airport over the weekend, preventing him from covering the return of Jaialdi after a ten-year hiatus since the last ...

BOISE, Idaho, July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Every five years, Idaho's state capital becomes the Basque capital of America as up to 50,000 of the unique European ethnic group of that descent descend on ...

With the highest concentration of people of Basque descent living outside the Pyrenees, Boise is known as a great destination for those wanting to learn about and celebrate the Basque culture. And now ...

The Basque people began to plant roots in Idaho during the 1890s, initially to work as shepherds, and their numbers in the Treasure Valley continued to grow as the ethnic minority was persecuted by ...

An Eagle corporation is looking to increase its footprint in Downtown Boise with a new mixed-use building on the city's popular Basque Block. Heath One LLC enlisted Pivot North Architecture to examine ...