Idaho Business Review IBR

The wind always seems to blow on the Snake River plain, keeping this high-desert landscape of sage, potatoes and sugar-beet plants forever in motion. Still, General Electric Co. executives said the consistent gusts weren’t enough for them to take a ...

Oil company ConocoPhillips is appealing an Idaho judge’s ruling this week that revoked special state permits allowing four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment through a federally protected river corridor. Opponents of the shipments on U.S. Highway 12 say the ...

LEWISTON – A judge on Aug. 24 revoked special permits allowing a company to truck four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment through a federally protected river corridor, saying the state failed to address public concerns. Second District Judge John ...

POCATELLO – Prices are rising for Idaho’s top four agricultural commodities – dairy, beef, potatoes and wheat. That bodes well for the state’s struggling economy and is a reversal from last year, when prices were depressed and the agricultural sector ...

UPDATED: A state judge has brought a temporary halt to a ConocoPhillips plan to truck oversized loads of massive oil refinery equipment along curvy, scenic U.S. Highway 12 in north central Idaho. The temporary restraining order, issued Tuesday by 2nd ...

An Idaho judge has ordered a Seattle-based mortgage broker to pay more than $1 million in penalties and restitution for fraud and violations in state laws. A judge in Ada County ruled that Access Mortgage engaged in numerous violations, including ...

A Salt Lake City company that has offered to buy Idaho’s Tamarack Resort changed its website Aug. 16 after being questioned about the accuracy of its information. The Associated Press scrutinized a passage on the Pelorus Group’s website that told ...

People who live around a toxic former silver mining complex in Idaho have a message for federal environmental officials who want to expand a lengthy cleanup effort: Go home, your help is no longer wanted. Despite the government’s best intentions, ...

A Texas woman has been charged with stealing about $125,000 from an Ada County business during a period that lasted more than a year. Aimee Scarisbrick, 41, is facing 24 counts of felony forgery and one count of grand theft. ...

A Salt Lake City real estate investment company says it has offered an undisclosed sum for Tamarack Resort, the central Idaho ski-and-golf getaway that collapsed in 2008 under hundreds of millions in unpaid debt. Pelorus Group owner JT Bramlette told ...