SPOKANE, Wash. – Plans to move gigantic oil refinery equipment down a mountainous Idaho highway are being defended by ConocoPhillips and an Idaho business group. A group called Drive Our Economy was launched to ensure that U.S. Highway 12 and ...
Read More »ITD director issues stay on U.S. 12 oversized-load permits
The Idaho Transportation Department issued permits Nov. 10 for over-sized loads to travel from Lewiston, Idaho, to the Montana border on U.S. 12, but the shipments will be suspended until after a hearing officer rules whether an intervention into the ...
Read More »Idaho blasted by National group for storage purchase
A national self-storage lobbying group says Idaho is engaging in unfair competition with the private sector and undermining tax revenue that would otherwise go to local governments by buying a storage facility to benefit the state’s public schools. Idaho paid ...
Read More »Conoco’s oversized rigs readying for transport
Oversized oil rigs sitting in the Port of Lewiston, Idaho could be moving through Montana to Billings in a matter of days. Two of the rigs are already on trailers, ready to go. Despite legal wrangling in Idaho to block ...
Read More »Swiss bank working on Tamarack land lease
UPDATE – Idaho officials said a Credit Suisse Group-led lender consortium is among those working to help cover Tamarack Resort’s tardy lease to use state land, as jockeying over the failed Idaho ski area’s future continues. No agreement is finalized, ...
Read More »Boise’s Gridflex Energy drops power plant proposal
A Boise-based company has dropped plans to seek a permit for a feasibility study of a power plant in prime wildlife habitat near Townsend, Mont. Gridflex Energy CEO Matthew Shapiro tells the Independent Record that his company notified the Federal ...
Read More »Idaho reaches settlement with US Fidelis
The former owners of a company that claimed to be the nation’s top marketer of auto-service contracts are now permanently banned from doing similar business in Idaho. The state attorney general’s office says Darain and Cory Atkinson, ex-owners of US ...
Read More »Idaho cheese factory to expand next year
The Jerome Cheese Co. plans to create up to 20 new jobs with the expansion of its factory in south-central Idaho next year. The company says addition to the Jerome plant, which churns out about 520,000 pounds of American cheese ...
Read More »Pocatello’s On Semiconductor to expand 
POCATELLO – ON Semiconductor Corp., which makes chips used in cars and cell phones, plans to install another $15.7 million worth of production equipment in its eight-inch Pocatello wafer manufacturing facility during the next six months. This investment is in ...
Read More »Idaho Falls Ponzi investors seek restitution
IDAHO FALLS – The victims of a Ponzi scheme that took in about $68 million from mostly eastern Idaho investors are jockeying for their share of restitution in the case. A federal judge ordered Rexburg attorney Breck Barton on Wednesday ...
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