Digital duds bring animal app to bedtime routine 
POSTED: Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 09:41 AM PTBY: Paul Menser
In the last few years, a lot of people have been learning about QR tags – coded images that can be scanned with a smart phone to bring information to the phone’s screen. Many have said Wow. Juan Murdoch said, “What if?” Murdoch wondered what QR codes could do if you put them on children’s pajamas [...]
Idaho Falls Airport to begin $2.7 million renovation in April
POSTED: Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM PTBY: Paul Menser
Tags: Idaho Falls Airport
By the end of 2013, getting onto a plane at Idaho Falls Regional Airport is going to be easier, thanks to a $2.7 million renovation project slated to begin in April. Terminal improvements are rarely a high priority for the Federal Aviation Administration; runway safety always comes first. But travelers will welcome the news that [...]
New extended-stay hotel opens in Idaho Falls
POSTED: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 01:01 PM PTBY: Paul Menser
Nearly six years after the original developers broke ground, Idaho Falls’ Marriott Residence Inn has opened in a changed market. The five-story, extended-stay hotel is the first major lodging development in Idaho Falls since the economic slowdown of 2008. Situated by the Snake River, not far from the stagecoach crossing where Idaho Falls was born [...]
Bill’s Bike Shop to move from longtime Holmes location
POSTED: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 09:00 AM PTBY: Paul Menser
In the world of Idaho Falls retail, there are few names more well-known than Bill’s Bike Shop, which has put at least four generations on two wheels. Established in 1947 on Idaho Falls’ south side by Bill and Alice Murdoch, the shop has moved twice, but earlier this year owner Gary Wight, who bought the [...]
Direct Health program springs up in Idaho Falls
POSTED: Monday, July 2, 2012 at 11:23 AM PTBY: Paul Menser
For pharmacist Mike Merrill of Idaho Falls, getting cash up front is always better. Anytime he deals with an insurance company, the money coming Merrill’s way first goes through a pharmacy benefit manager. “They always take their chunk out of the middle, and I’m lucky to make anything at all,” he said. Merrill, who operates [...]
Shoshone-Bannock to open $47M event center in July
POSTED: Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 09:10 AM PTBY: Paul Menser
Tags: Shoshone-Bannock Tribe
Summer on eastern Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Reservation promises to be different this year. When the drummers start drumming and the dancers start dancing at the annual Sho-Ban Festival, it will in the shadow of the $47 million Shoshone-Bannock Hotel and Event Center, scheduled to open in mid-July. Five stories high and with 156 rooms, the hotel [...]
Rexburg-based Sno Shacks are building customer base outside Idaho
POSTED: Friday, May 11, 2012 at 01:25 PM PTBY: Paul Menser
Aside from local golfers, nobody could be more pleased by the mild spring weather than Preston Walker, now in his eighth year of selling shaved ice in the Idaho Falls area. Walker bought his first Sno Shack while he was in college, and this summer he’ll have six. “It did better than we thought it would,” [...]
Idaho Falls works to regain direct Boise flights
POSTED: Friday, May 4, 2012 at 11:48 AM PTBY: Paul Menser
A lot of cities the size of Idaho Falls would envy its air service: three carriers providing jet service to major hubs. The city’s technology base provides a sizable number of higher-fare business travelers. But what is driving the expansion in service to markets like Salt Lake City, Denver, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix and [...]
Idaho Falls readies for school construction building boom
POSTED: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 04:57 PM PTBY: Paul Menser
When Idaho Falls schools let out at the end of May, commercial building in Idaho Falls and Bonneville County, already up in 2012, is going to get a big boost. Earlier this year, voters in Idaho Falls School District 91 approved a $53 million bond issue for the construction of four new elementary schools. The [...]
