Gov. Brad Little announced a new boost for people who are exiting unemployment for a new job: $1,500 cash bonuses to full-time employees and $750 to part-time employees who return to work. The program will be funded with $100 million ...
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A 90-ton crane sits just outside the concrete footprint of what will be the Idaho Central Credit Union Arena on the University of Idaho Moscow campus. On May 29, it swung its massive arm above the soon-to-be basketball court to set the first 35-foot-tall wood column, culminating nearly ...
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In general, bankruptcies increase as a result of economic downturns. It may come as a surprise, then, that bankruptcies have done the exact opposite since the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the American Bankruptcy Institute, the numbers from ...
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After closing its Boise branches inside Fred Meyer grocery stores in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus, JPMorgan Chase Bank is now building a new branch — across the street from a Fred Meyer grocery store in which one of those branches ...
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The state of Idaho is using some of the $1.25 billion it received from the federal government as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act to save Idaho taxpayers up to $15 million. “The COVID-19 pandemic is ...
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Confronted by an unending surge of phone calls over unemployment claims, the Idaho Department of Labor hired a call center to provide extra agents to handle the flood of applicants phoning in. The call center came online on June 1. ...
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Ada County plans to gut and renovate its zoning ordinances. This little news gem was buried deep inside a May 29 news release from the county’s planning and development department on a different but related matter. An Ada County news ...
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Itafos, owner and operator of several Idaho phosphate properties, posted a 135% increase in sales volume from its Itafos Conda subsidiary during the first quarter 2020 compared to 1Q 2019. Itafos Conda is a major employer in Caribou, Franklin and Bear ...
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A North Idaho telecommunications company is expanding into Washington with a purchase of another telecommunications company. Intermax Networks, based in Coeur d’Alene, is buying Tel-West Business Communications, based in Spokane, for an undisclosed price. “Our success at adding Voice over ...
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The city of Kuna’s economic development committee is in the beginning stages of a “retail village” to let small businesses get off the ground without the expense of a storefront. “While we have a number of businesses in our downtown, ...
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