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Downtowners looking to squeeze in a sweat sesh during a lunch break or after work might want to pivot to a new fitness provider opening for business a few weeks before Thanksgiving. The owner is a familiar face to Idaho ...

To keep pace with the demand for its services, the Cancer Care Center at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center recently opened its newly expanded and renovated Chemotherapy Infusion Room. The new outpatient facility more than doubles the square footage of ...

New short-term rentals, such as those on Airbnb, would be limited under a new proposal from Boise Mayor David Bieter. Short-term rentals, meaning any rental of a room, living space or accessory dwelling unit for less than 30 consecutive days, ...

Want fries with that? If so, you’ve just used a funnel, a sales technique that made ClickFunnels one of the most successful companies in the U.S. The five-year-old Eagle-based software company recently ranked 440 on the Inc. 5000 list of ...

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A Coeur d’Alene company is developing battery storage technology similar to that of Tesla Inc., which could lead to a manufacturing facility being sited in the state with up to 2,000 jobs. The company, KORE Power, produces lithium ion batteries ...

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With two Idaho companies signing memorandums of understanding (MOU) with Taiwanese manufacturer Megaforce, will Boise-based sales and marketing company SMHeuristics be next? In June, Megaforce signed an MOU with Meridian manufacturer PKG User Interface Solutions, while in September Megaforce signed an ...

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Travis Apartments, a 1937 building that contains 10 inexpensive one-bedroom units, will be replaced with a new building with a mix of office space and high-end residential units. Preservationists had spoken out against replacing the 82-year-old Boise building, located at ...

Sunwest Bank has moved all its back office functionality to Idaho from California and is looking for locations for new branches in downtown Boise and south Meridian. The bank, based in Irvine, entered the Idaho market in 2014 when Syringa ...

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The gun debate has hit the retail sector, with a number of companies enacting no-open-carry policies and some organizations advocating for bills to limit businesses’ ability to take that step. Albertsons, Kroger (the parent company of Idaho retailer Fred Meyer), Walmart ...

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When Lucia Carbajal was growing up in Weiser, the town had only one medical provider who spoke Spanish. Not much has changed since. Carbajal, a medical student, wants to help ease that shortage. Carbajal and other medical students taking part in ...