Idaho Business Review IBR

Former U.S. House hopeful Vaughn Ward has been appointed CEO of a northern Idaho hospital. Ward, a Republican who lost to tea party favorite Raul Labrador in the Idaho primary three months ago, will start his new job at Northwest ...

Lewiston officials aim to add sufficient water and sewer infrastructure to the local airport’s south side to attract industrial development, Mayor Kevin Poole said. Businesses would lease ground from the airport and pay taxes on the value of the business ...

The federal government is sending an additional $5 million to Idaho to help neighborhoods hurt by the foreclosure crisis. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced the additional funding Sept. 8 to help communities acquire foreclosed properties for ...

Commercial real estate values may be leveling off, and two factors may be contributing to a stabilization of the Treasure Valley market. Jay Story, owner/broker of Story Commercial in Boise, said commercial rates have begun to stabilize due in part ...

BOISE – Idaho libertarian activist Ralph Smeed has died in a Boise hospital. He was 88. Smeed, a resident of Caldwell, died Sept. 7 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Smeed was an Idaho livestock dealer-turned-limited government gadfly who was ...

Idaho Falls-based Diversified Metal Products Inc. failed nearly a half-dozen times over two years before earning its first contract to provide materials at a federal nuclear site in South Carolina. The company’s first win was a bid to supply stainless ...

M2M Communications Corp. is expanding its west Boise headquarters for a second time this year. The designer and provider of remote monitoring equipment is remodeling 4,500 square feet of space at 5771 Discovery Way in Boise Research Center. After M2M ...

Something about Bodybuilding.com has caused John Hardesty to keep coming back. The 29-year old has had three different stints of employment at the Meridian company. He interned as a student, returned as creative director alongside company founder Ryan DeLuca, and ...

Boise-based Columbia Mortgage has cut staff, outsourced loan processing, concentrated on marketing and spent less time shuffling paper in order to survive. The mortgage brokering firm has capitalized on a mix of innovation and good timing even while dozens of its ...

Small business lobbyists in Idaho are gearing up to show voters and lawmakers that an Arizona-type immigration law in Idaho would hit residents where it hurts: In the wallet. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter on Sept. 3 announced the state of ...