Idaho Business Review IBR

Idaho skiers and the state’s collection of resorts have reaped the benefits of a snow-filled season and an improved economy, factors that enabled operators to start up lifts earlier than previous years and put several mountains on pace to set ...

Lobbyists for wind energy companies stood in shocked disbelief April 7 after the Idaho Senate narrowly killed a measure to extend a sales tax rebate for alternative energy. The expected deal had been hashed out between lawmakers, utilities and wind ...

An Idaho Falls Republican accused two unidentified House colleagues of ethical lapses in a hearing during which lawmakers also killed a bill that would have put strict new prohibitions on where new wind turbines could be built. The measure would ...

The federal government is suing a Nevada mining company in a bid to recover more than $7 million spent to clean up lead, arsenic and other hazardous materials that contaminated the environment at three mine sites in Idaho. The lawsuit ...

OMAHA, Neb. – A federal judge dismissed a dispute April 1 between Union Pacific and Idahoan Foods over a 2009 derailment the railroad claimed was caused by dehydrated mashed potato product. A motion filed earlier by the companies’ attorneys in ...

Union Pacific Railroad is planning improvements to tracks, ties, crossings and other infrastructure across Idaho this year in anticipation of a railroad rebound from an economic lull. The work in Idaho is part of $3.2 billion in improvements the railroad ...

Idaho’s new, problem-plagued Medicaid claims processing system may cost taxpayers millions of dollars, according to a report released March 29 by legislative auditors who concluded that neither Idaho health officials, the software company nor Medicaid providers were adequately prepared for ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. – It might be inconceivable to small business owners that a disaster hundreds or thousands of miles away could shut them down. But the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have interrupted shipments of parts and finished goods ...

In recent days, Rep. Cameron Wheeler has fielded numerous phone calls from voters in his eastern Idaho district that took him a little off-guard. “They told me, ‘Vote for the cigarette tax increase,'” said Wheeler, R-Ririe, of the callers’ message. ...

In the heat of August – when Boise residents are cranking up their air conditioners and farmers are pumping water onto thirsty crops – the solar resource in southern Idaho is estimated to be as good as in the desert ...