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Mountain Home and Elmore County are together looking at developments that could as much as double the population in the area.  The area is seeing more housing demand due to its lower prices, as well as a planned increase in ...

Nobody likes residential sprawl. It uses up vacant land on city outskirts that might otherwise be agricultural or green space, it requires new or extended infrastructure such as utilities and roads and in general it just makes everything less efficient ...

Read More “Year in Review” News Driving around Idaho or flying over, it’s easy to forget that much of the state is desert. As far as the eye can see, there are productive fields, lush green lawns and verdant parks ...

When it comes to infrastructure, 2022 was Christmas all year long.  Thanks to largesse such as the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and a massive ...

Concerns about inflation started even before 2022 began, and as the federal funding helping to stimulate the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic took effect — exacerbated by factors such as the conflict in Ukraine, which affected food and energy prices, and ...

Idaho ranks 51st in the nation in physicians per capita. John Huckabay wants to fix that.  According to the Association of American Medical Colleges State Physician Workforce Data Report released in January 2022, Idaho has the lowest number of active physicians ...

Two credit unions geared toward the technology industry, each headquartered in San Jose, California, have expanded in Idaho, one with a brick-and-mortar branch and another online.  They are First Tech Federal Credit Union, which opened a branch in Eagle, and ...

Boise doesn’t seem like the sort of place to find a multimillion-dollar national commercial real estate lender. But it is home to A10 Capital, which just hired a new CEO, Anuj Gupta. (Principal, founder and former CEO Jerry Dunn will ...

Anyone with a garden or a yard knows how difficult it is to keep it weed-free.  Now, instead of having an eighth of an acre, imagine having a hundred acres. “It’s a painful reality to take care of a weed,” ...

Read More IBR Headlines A makerspace is, quite literally, a place where people go to make physical things, hands-on. It could involve anything from 3D printing and vinyl cutting to carving wood and stone, and everything in-between, including jewelry and ...