The fire started around 3 p.m. in the scrublands between Lavaside Canal and the Snake River. Its cause its still under investigation. It was quickly visible from the interstate, burning in the river bottoms usually visited only by deer, moose and ...
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Andrus Conference dam discussion focuses on fish survival 
The Andrus Center conference on May 13 appeared to rehearse many of the arguments in the war over removing the four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington. Positioned at center stage at the conference was Congressman Mike Simpson’s ...
Read More »Ground broken on large-venue Idaho Falls event center 
After more than 25 years since an event center was first proposed, the Idaho Falls Auditorium District (IFAD) broke ground at Snake River Landing on May 18 for its long-awaited event center. Notable figures invited to wield the ground-breaking shovels ...
Read More »State Hospital West mental health facility completed 
The state of Idaho has opened the second of two mental health facilities in under a year. State Hospital West (SHW) opened on May 10, eight months after the new Syringa Chalet Skilled Nursing Facility opened at State Hospital South ...
Read More »Idaho Transportation Department approves Highway 16 extension 
The Idaho Transportation Board approved dozens of new road projects across every corner of the state on May 19, when it held its regular monthly meeting. At the top of the list for projects in District 3 was the extension of Idaho State ...
Read More »Perpetua previews plans for tailings storage facility 
Perpetua Resources, formerly known as Midas Gold, publicly previewed its tailings storage facility (TSF) for the Stibnite mine project in a May 13 webinar. The mining company is in the permitting process to mine the previously abandoned Stibnite mine for ...
Read More »CCDC: 225 affordable housing units blocks from the Capitol 
Boise’s urban renewal agency, the Capital City Development Corporation (CCDC), does not lack ambition. The CCDC published a new Request For Proposals (RFP) on May 17 for an entire block just three blocks from the Idaho State Capitol and kitty-corner ...
Read More »Northwest firm Lorentz Bruun Construction turns 75 
Lorentz Bruun Construction (LBC) of Portland, Oregon, is celebrating 75 years of general contracting in the Pacific and Inland Northwest. LBC is licensed in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The firm completed 10,000 projects by 1995. The firm’s projects in Idaho include work ...
Read More »Reed’s Dairy to open fifth store in Kuna 
Reed’s Dairy is finally coming to Kuna. The Idaho Falls maker of ice cream and other dairy products will open its fifth store in Kuna this summer. “We hope to open mid-to-late June,” Alan Reed told the Idaho Business Review. ...
Read More »East Idaho bus firm adds Los Angeles route 
The largest ground transportation business in Idaho will add service to Los Angeles starting May 20. Salt Lake Express services routes along I-15, I-80 and several other highways in the inland Northwest and Great Basin. The new bus service will ...
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