Idaho Business Review IBR

Five Idaho companies seeking further exporting opportunities, while learning from the state’s top business experts were recognized during the culmination of Idaho’s Export Excellence Program, Nov. 18, at Murphy’s Steakhouse in Boise. Executives from Idaho-based, PCS Edventures, Preco, Sloan Security Group, ...

Idaho Transportation Department hearing officer Merlyn W. Clark made no decision on whether to allow the over-sized loads at the Port of Lewiston to move on U.S. 12 from Idaho to Montana. Following a two-hour hearing Nov. 19, Clark said ...

An anti-smoking group aiming to convince Idaho lawmakers to raise tobacco taxes has released a poll showing residents favor hiking the 57-cent-per-pack cigarette tax. The American Cancer Society- and Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids-led coalition said Thursday 50 percent of 500 ...

Construction of a new restaurant in the 805 Idaho Building is scheduled to start Monday. Fork, will occupy the former Bad Irish bar space at the corner of Eighth and Idaho Streets in downtown Boise after interior upgrades including carpeted ...

Update: The Tamarack Municipal Association confirmed Nov.19 that more than $400,000 in payments to the Idaho School Endowment has been made by the TMA and Credit Suisse. The payments meet settlement obligations of a mountain land lease approved Nov. 16 ...

The Payette County Planning & Zoning Commission has set a public hearing Dec. 2 on part of Alternate Energy Holdings’ plan to build a nuclear power plant near the corner of Big Willow and Stone Quarry roads northeast of New ...

ConocoPhillips promises it won’t hold Idaho responsible for loss related to shipping four oversized loads from the Port of Lewiston across U.S. 12 to Montana. In an agreement issued Nov. 18, company officials said issuing of permits by the transportation ...

Meridian-based Silverdraft unveiled a new mobile movie studio that it expects to be used on big-time Hollywood film productions. The company, based in the old Coors warehouse on Eagle Road, brought its new “supercomputer-on-wheels” to downtown Boise for a round of media ...

ExxonMobil expects 17 more modules for a Canadian oil sands project to arrive at the Port of Lewiston before the Columbia/Snake river system closes to barge traffic on Dec. 10 for lock repairs. The company already has 16 modules at ...

After a September surge in U.S. Small Business Administration loan volume, officials in SBA’s Boise district did not know what to expect in October, spokesman Larry Demirelli said. “The spike in September was the direct result of the funding of ...