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Twin Falls business Desert Creative Group — a problem-solving agency that helps organizations grow through consulting services, team development and training — joined forces with the South Central Small Business Development Center (SBDC) office to form Downtown Wheelhouse, a community ...

In December, Hempitecture announced the opening of its new manufacturing facility in Jerome. The 33,000-square-foot building is the first U.S.-based energy efficient nonwoven facility to produce sustainable bio-based nonwoven products for multiple industries using renewable energy.  The building is located ...

Stockholders of Northwest Farm Credit Services (FCS) and Farm Credit West have approved a merger of their associations to form AgWest Farm Credit — a $30 billion financial cooperative that provides financing and related services to farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses, commercial ...

Small businesses face a mix of old and new challenges as 2023 begins. A looming recession, still high (although easing) inflation and labor woes are some of issues carrying over from 2022 that small businesses will have to tackle. There ...

Ancient grains make for modern popularity. Heather and Thomas Dilworth, partners in Big Sandy Organics of Montana, found this out when they pitched their ancient-grain Kracklin’ Kamut snack in the Trailmix Pitch Competition in October and captured the $50,000 grand ...

Leading engineering, environmental and professional services consultancy, WSP USA, is growing in the Boise area with additional staff and diversified services for clients. WSP’s new Boise office on Entertainment Avenue is touted as having plenty of room to accommodate employee ...

Eric Morrison, founder of Alley Homes in Boise, garnered the first-place, $10,000 award in the public track of the Hacking for Homebuilding competition last October through Boise State University for his proposal regarding accessory dwelling units. His student counterpart, Samuel ...

More and more employees are looking for work-from-home options and employers are rising to meet that demand. To help ensure people get the training they need to make the work-from-home setup a success, the University of Idaho Extension recently launched ...

Read More IBR Headlines studio\Blu, a student-centric program within Boise State University, is providing an innovation and talent pipeline for small- to medium-sized product manufacturing firms.   According to Catherine Cantley, center director, in the last two years, the center ...

Read More IBR Headlines The story of Iron Pine began when Maria Lopez sat doodling one day. A simple sketch turned into one of her first Idaho-inspired designs that she used for hats and T-shirts. After that, the designs kept ...