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A massive acquisition in Idaho’s tech community is likely to result in worldwide expansion of the market for Cradlepoint’s 5G products, according to executives from Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications firm that paid $1.1 billion for the Boise company. The market ...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article had an incorrect price. Boise-based Cradlepoint, a Boise-based technology company that makes wide-area networking and 5G hardware and software, has been sold to Ericsson for $1.1 billion, which would make it the ...

Less than a week before Dan McElhinney’s appointment as the Idaho Transportation Department’s chief operating officer, the state’s main north-south highway was closed due to rockslides — some the size of the house. Some people might have taken that as an ...

Idahoans typically think of Micron as just one of the state’s, and Boise’s, major employers; as former Boise mayor Dave Bieter used to say, “When Micron sneezes, Boise catches a cold.” But the company also runs a charitable foundation that helps ...

Every Idaho town and city has the “STP” problem: The same ten people seem to be the only ones who step up to volunteer for community programs. How does a city groom new people to take their place? The answer ...

As the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program nears its end, more than 60,000 Idaho businesses have received loans or grants from it and other programs, totaling more than $3.2 billion, according to the Small Business Administration, which administers the program. ...

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Gov. Brad Little announced today he will call the Idaho Legislature into a special legislative session the week of Aug. 24.  Little, legislative leaders and members of the House and Senate will continue discussions about the specific topics that will ...

Editor’s note: This article was updated on July 29 to correct references to VentureCapital.org. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Boise State VentureCapital.org program has been adjusted a bit, and its former executive has taken a new position. However, it ...

Running an agritourism business takes a special kind of person. “We really do better talking to the cows than to other people,” laughed Laura Johnson, bureau chief for marketing and development at the Idaho State Department of Agriculture. “There are ...

With COVID-19 giving all of us interaction-starved Idahoans a new appreciation for Boise’s parks, improvements to those parks are continuing apace despite the epidemic. “We didn’t slow down over here,” said Doug Holloway, director of parks and recreation for the ...