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Less than a month ago, Boise State coach Bryan Harsin said that he wasn’t willing to settle and that he’d like to see the university step up its commitment to improving the football program. Harsin’s request became reality Thursday when the athletic ...

IDAHO FALLS – A multi-screen Megaplex Theatre will be coming to the Snake River Landing development in Idaho Falls. The theatre will be the first Megaplex-branded multi-screen cinema in Idaho. Ball Ventures, the developer of Snake River Landing, and the Utah-based ...

NeighborWorks Boise has finished its first pocket neighborhood within Boise’s city limits. By the end of 2019, all of the homes in the Hawthorne Street Cottages pocket neighborhood were completed and sold. The 12-unit subdivision is located off of Ormond ...

Business stakeholders approved Gov. Brad Little’s State of the State message and budget proposal, which featured a heavy emphasis on public education but was conservative to help the state prepare for a possible recession. Presented on Jan. 6 in the ...

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The Internal Revenue Service and Department of the Treasury have issued what are expected to be the final regulations for Opportunity Zones. The new regulations were issued on Dec. 19 and comprise more than 500 pages in length. “For us, ...

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Idaho banks are partnering with a Portland, Oregon-based company on electronic loan applications that can get responses back in a matter of days. “It is an easy system to use and a quick process,” said Jeff McDougall, project manager with ...

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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 is no stranger to national “best-of” lists, but in 2019 it hit a new threshold with a pair of articles in Inc. magazine, according to leaders in the state’s entrepreneurial community. Now, it’s a matter of leveraging that attention to ...

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A venerable San Jose, California-based credit union geared toward the technology community is considering setting up shop in Boise. Tech CU, formally known as Technology Credit Union, hasn’t filed paperwork with the state of Idaho nor received approval from its ...

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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, ...