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Black Friday has slowly lost ground for brick-and-mortar retail with the growth of e-commerce. For 2020, the year of the pandemic, no one really knows what is going to happen on Black Friday. It may be that Black Friday as ...

This year has tested many new and old retailers and sorted those that have managed to thrive from those that have dived for Chapter 11 or liquidation. An indication as to which will survive this year can be gained from ...

With this year’s Black Lives Matter movement, a number of people are looking for ways to support Idaho’s Black-owned businesses. However, it isn’t always easy to find them. Enter the African American Chamber of Commerce. Chapters have been springing up ...

Jessica Anderson is a second-generation Leadership Idaho Agriculture participant, and is one of 24 other participants in Class 41. Anderson grew up on a farm in Canyon County that grew onions, wheat, feed corn and a signature of the area: ...

Half Price Books, the nation’s largest family-owned new-and-used bookstore chain, officially opened its first Idaho store at the Meridian Crossroads on Nov. 12. In reality, the 6,800-square foot store actually opened its doors to customers for an unplanned soft opening ...

With all the dire retail apocalypse news almost every day this year, it comes as a pleasant surprise that seven new stores are opening at Twin Falls’ Magic Valley Mall, the biggest retail venue in south central Idaho. This is ...

Every year for as long as many can remember, volunteer shoppers for the Bingham County’s Children’s Community Christmas Project assembled at the front doors into the Blackfoot Walmart waiting for the store to open for Black Friday. Every volunteer already ...

This article was edited on November 12 to correct the history of women on Micron’s board. Micron is touting gains it has made in its third annual diversity, equality and inclusion report, but despite the progress that it and some ...

While people are more likely to associate Idaho with potatoes rather than molybdenum, mining still plays an important role in the state’s economy as it is the home of a number of rare minerals used in industry. The Idaho Mining ...

This article was updated on Nov. 9 to correct an editing error. Idaho Power is planning to exit from its Valmy coal-fired power plant by 2022, three years earlier than scheduled, the utility said. As recently as March 2019, the ...