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After 10 years as CEO for St. Luke’s Health System, Dr. David Pate will step down at the end of January. Pate received his M.D. from the Baylor College of Medicine and began his career as a primary care physician ...

BLACKFOOT – The City of Blackfoot will issue a request for proposal in mid-January for the preliminary engineering design to replace the West Bridge Street Bridge over the Snake River. The current bridge is a steel truss structure built in 1936. ...

Idaho wines are a big – and booming – business, according to new figures from the Idaho Wine Commission. According to a study released  on Dec. 17., the wine industry contributed $206.9 million in economic impact to the state through 2018, ...

The retail sector faced a string of chain store closures in 2019 across the nation with more than 9,000 brick-and-mortar stores shutting their doors during the year, according to market research firm coresight.com. Almost half of the store closures sold ...

The Meridian Chamber of Commerce has named Sean Evans, former Idaho Business Review publisher, as its new CEO. Evans will assume the leadership role at the chamber on Jan. 2, 2020. He brings over 25 years of experience in organizational ...

IDAHO FALLS — The final gavel has come down at the Idaho Falls stockyard. After 86 years of operation, the iconic business along the Union Pacific tracks held its last livestock auction on Dec. 18. The eight-acre parcel is in the old commercial ...

The City of Boise announced the purchase of approximately 2.6 acres of open space on Dec. 23 and will engage in “a robust public outreach effort to get feedback on opportunities for the site, which could include agricultural components for ...

The Ada County Commissioners voted unanimously on Dec. 23 to auction off the historic and still-operating Barber Dam. The county took possession of the dam and its attached power plant in 1977. The owner at the time failed to pay ...

The Meridian City Council approved a new comprehensive plan on Dec. 17, minus a controversial clause over the transition from rural neighborhoods to areas of higher housing density. The excluded clause involved minimum lot sizes in a rural-transition policy that ...

JEROME – Nelson–Jameson Inc. announced on Dec. 16 that it will build a 29,000-square-foot distribution facility on the south side of Jerome. The company recently purchased 19 acres of land in the Northside subdivision for the new distribution center, with room ...