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Idaho’s biggest transit agency runs 80 buses, though it will expand its fleet to 87 buses by October. It carries some 3,000 commuters every day and operates 24/7. Its shortest route distance between stops is over 35 miles and its ...

What would you say to receiving accurate weather and road conditions delivered to your vehicle in real time with milepost resolution? It’s not a pipe dream. It’s currently a reality for the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) bus system in a ...

One of the claims asserted against COVID-19 vaccination is that the new vaccines lack full Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and are experimental in nature. These statements are both true and false. This Idaho Business Review (IBR) deep dive ...

How is the drought affecting Idaho’s crops? Noticeably, even with the state’s extensive irrigation network. The winter wheat harvest started in June. The July 12 United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) crop progress and condition (CPC) report recorded a gruesome ...

Utah’s iconic furnishings business, RC Willey, announced on July 20 that it will build one of its large furniture stores on 20 acres in Idaho Falls, with an estimated opening in late 2022. The furnishing retailer has been in business ...

In a sound bite, this year’s water situation for the Snake River — which irrigates the bulk of Idaho’s potato and barley crops — may be the worst in 25 years. This is based on water storage data from Jackson ...

Editor’s note: This article accompanies the story “When rural isn’t rural, it can hurt Idaho health care” published July 23. In researching the story of Lost River Medical Center’s surgery facility for the last year and a half, the Idaho ...

This is a story of how a federal law killed a promising surgery center partnership between two rural hospitals in a tiny Idaho town and delayed the center’s completion by at least two years. The center was completed and opened ...

In the wake of the employee vaccination requirements at Saint Alphonsus, St. Luke’s and Primary Health, three large health care employers in Idaho, some politicians like Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin and Rep. Tammy Nichols have called for the Legislature to ...

Editor’s note: This article accompanies a commentary piece by Stephen Hartgen published in the Times-News and on idahocapitalsun.com. Idaho’s water laws use what is known as the appropriation, rather than the riparian, doctrine. Under riparian water rights, the right to ...