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The Idaho Department on Labor reported last year that Idaho was aging faster than the rest of the country. Since then, the disparity has widened. When the Idaho Department of Labor wrote its report last year, Idaho had outpaced the country ...

The Idaho fermented tea brewery Idaho Kombucha has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help it purchase new production equipment. Terri and Mike Landa opened Idaho Kombucha in 2014 after sampling kombucha that a visitor brought from Seattle. The couple enjoyed ...

City officials from Garden City have put up nine signs along the Greenbelt to direct attention to local businesses and the arts. The Garden City Urban Renewal Agency used a grant from COMPASS and money from the Idaho Wine Commission and ...

Boise-based Covr Financial has been hiring developers and support staff since receiving $5 million in funding from investors on both coasts. Todd Ruplinger, owner of National Brokerage, founded Covr Financial in 2013 under the name 1 Click Coverage. Covr Financial is ...

Many of the factors that have affected startup growth since the Great Recession are resulting in an older and more diverse demographic among business owners than in previous decades. Every year, the Kauffman Foundation publishes a series of reports detailing ...

Jonni Armani, a photographer and actor, and his wife Shelly West, a former fashion designer and author of 17 romance novels, moved to Boise from Portland last year because they thought it would be a better atmosphere for their three ...

The Idaho Department of Insurance is seeking feedback on its licensing and renewal process. The move is part of a process that the state started in May when Lt. Gov. Brad Little ordered Idaho state departments and self-governing agencies to ...

Homeowners insurance rates have risen about 15 percent in Idaho since 2012 due to forest fires and winter storms, according to a new report by the personal finance website ValuePenguin. In a report on Idaho, ValuePenguin research analyst Craig Casazza ...

Two economic development organizations in northern Idaho used an available manufacturing space and a state tax credit to attract a Washington company to Hayden. Jon Smalley, CEO of SmaK Plastics, said he became interested in the area after the Panhandle Area Council ...

Personal income grew faster in Idaho during the first quarter of 2017 than in any other state. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released a report for the first quarter of 2017 on June 27 that showed Idaho’s personal income growth rate of ...