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Ridgeline Energy and BP Wind Energy are beginning construction on what will be the largest wind project in the state. The construction site for the Goshen North wind farm in Bonneville County, when fully operational, will have a generating capacity ...

Vale Wine Co. is moving production from the former Urban Winemakers Cooperative in Garden City to the University of Idaho business and technology incubator on Chicago Street in Caldwell. John and Vicki Danielson own Vale Wine Co. and initially will ...

A bill exempting certain rural homeowners from fire code regulations has just one more hurdle to jump before becoming law. After cruising through the Senate Feb. 23 with an almost unanimous vote (33-1-1), the House Business Committee agreed March 15 ...

After a painful January, where the number of new home foreclosures in Canyon County rose 70 percent over the December number to 365, the total slid down 28 percent in February to 263. These numbers come from a report from ...

Rates for customers of Falls Water Co. near Idaho Falls will increase by about 6 percent effective April 1. With the increase, an average residential bill will be about $24.16 per month. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission approved the increase ...

Homeowners who qualify have until April 15 to apply for two different programs that can help them with their property taxes. The Idaho Property Tax Reduction (Circuit Breaker) program reduces property taxes on a homeowner’s primary Idaho residence and on ...

Bobby Do is looking for some new customers. His 7-year-old Japanese restaurant, Ichiban, has the older crowd in hand, but with the economy, he lost most of his banquet hall-renting crowd. So he thought about the crowds he sees walking ...

Kount, a Boise-based company that specializes in card-not-present fraud prevention, has signed with Chase Paymentech, of Dallas, Texas to launch fraud solution that would eventually reduce merchant costs and the risk associated with card-not-present purchases. Chase Paymentech, a leading merchant ...

Quit talking about repealing tax exemptions. Bring a bill to do it. That’s the message Rep. Dennis Lake, the House Revenue and Taxation Committee chairman, sent the Senate by shelving without a hearing its measure calling for an annual review ...

Idaho employers opened 2010 by hiring fewer workers than in any two-month period on record, sending February’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate to 9.5 percent and stopping just short of breaking the record 9.6 percent rate in 1982-83. The February rate ...