Idaho Business Review IBR

Americans bought more previously owned homes in April, a hopeful sign that the weak housing market is gradually improving. The National Association of Realtors said May 22 that home sales rose 3.4 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual ...

The head of Idaho National Laboratory is reaching out to top Idaho leaders in an effort to strengthen the relationship between Idaho and the sprawling research facility in the eastern Idaho desert. INL Director John Grossenbacher said he’s even approached ...

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending. The states led by New ...

City officials in Sandpoint in northern Idaho are declining an offer from the Idaho Department of Agriculture to apply herbicide in Lake Pend Oreille near city beaches to eradicate Eurasian milfoil. The Bonner County Daily Bee reports that city council ...

Money from a $460 million trust fund intended to clean up mining pollution is starting to flow into Idaho’s Silver Valley. About $8.5 million will be spent this year from the Asarco trust, which was created as part of the ...

Lawmakers will have to approve more than $1.6 million in staffing increases and other costs for the Idaho Department of Correction under an agreement designed to bring a decades-old lawsuit over conditions at a Boise-area prison to an end. Idaho ...

The Idaho Department of Correction has agreed to increase staffing and dramatically increase medical care oversight as part of a long-running lawsuit over conditions at a prison south of Boise. The agreement filed with the U.S. District Court in Idaho ...

An Idaho Court of Appeals Panel has ruled that Philadelphia-based FMC Corp. must pay the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes $1.5 million annually for waste storage at its closed phosphorus production plant in eastern Idaho. The panel on May 11 affirmed a lower ...

The national prison health care company Corizon says a scathing court-ordered report on the care provide at an Idaho prison is full of errors and that a review they commissioned themselves proves it. But a close review of both reports ...

Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture say a microscopic parasite that damages potato crops has been found in three more eastern Idaho fields, bringing the number of infected fields to 15. Tina Gresham with the USDA in Idaho Falls ...