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The most unique zoning in Idaho may be that of Rexburg. While the city’s new comprehensive plan may make its zoning closer to land use practices in the rest of the state, Rexburg will retain its most atypical zoning classification ...

Boise-based Perpetua Resources announced on Sept. 20 that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) awarded the firm two grants to study the domestic production of military-grade antimony trisulfide. The Stibnite Mine in Valley County is named ...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released data for every state on Sept. 16 that updates information through August on job openings, hiring, quitting and firing. The big takeaway in this data is that the job market is still ...

Read More IBR Headlines According to Boise Regional Realtors (BRR), the median sales price for homes in Ada County was $565,000 in August, down 4.2% from July but 6.6% higher than August 2021. Higher mortgage interest rates and higher home ...

Read More IBR Headlines 21.05% of all Idaho holders of student loan debt are at or above the age of 50, according to data from the Enterprise Data Warehouse, publicly available through the Federal Student Aid office of the U.S. ...

Read More IBR Headlines In its 2022 survey of the best places to work, Oxfam America found that the best state for worker rights and protections was Oregon. Next door in Idaho, Oxfam ranked Idaho at 43rd. Oxfam America is ...

The national press has been making some observations lately about the stock trading patterns and equities holdings of members of the U.S. Congress. As part of this reporting trend, a New York Times (NYT) analysis article on Sept. 13 flagged ...

In a town where groundbreaking ceremonies seem to have become a sport of one-upmanship between developers, Micron Technology stole the prize for the showiest groundbreaking to date in Treasure Valley. The firm broke the area’s notoriously tough subsurface basalt with ...

As the invasion of the burger franchises continues in Idaho, the opening of the Logan, Utah In-N-Out Burger made headlines in eastern Idaho in mid-August, cutting the pilgrimage miles from college town Pocatello to the nearest In-N-Out by 25 miles. ...

An Urban Land Institute (ULI) panel recommended remaking the Garden City neighborhood south of the Greenbelt through streetscape changes along with preserving existing affordable housing and the area’s eclectic mixed retail, residential and industrial uses, and preserving the Greenbelt. Invited ...