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On Thursday, July 9 at 2 p.m., the Idaho Business Review will kick off the first installment of its first live webinar series, Idaho Business Now. The segments will be co-hosted by the Idaho Business Review’s Kim Burgess, Editor, and ...

The Federal Reserve is buying up corporate debt, which will help firms that do business in Idaho maintain their cash liquidity despite the COVID-19 economic downturn. The Fed announced in late March that it would, for the first time in ...

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St. Luke’s held a last beam ceremony on June 23 at the construction site of its new cancer center facility in Nampa. The beam was signed by St. Luke’s staff and local Canyon County community leaders before being lifted and ...

Employees of some 30 subcontractors laid off from HP’s Imaging, Printing and Solutions Business Group in Boise have been deemed eligible for federal employment services because the jobs moved overseas. The federal employment services, all part of the Trade Act ...

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Zillow is offering new data on local LGBT legal protections on its home search site. The data-powered resource will help people see whether for-sale and rental listings are in communities where state and local regulations explicitly protect individuals who identify as ...

The retail bankruptcies just keep coming. Chuck E. Cheese and GNC are the latest victims, with both filing for Chapter 11 and announcing store closures this past week. They join a laundry list of businesses that are struggling to reorganize ...

According to two different sources, Idaho is the worst state in the Union for COVID-19 testing. The highly-respected data aggregator, Worldometers.info reported that Idaho’s testing rate was 45,813 per 1,000,000 people. Johns Hopkins University reported a slightly-lower testing rate of ...

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Idaho mortgage brokers and loan officers aren’t getting much sleep as a flood of home loan and refinance applications is drowning them with work. The number of applications is setting records. Both the Mortgage Bankers Association and Freddie Mac report ...

Boise is one of the cities that’s attracting millennials, landing at No. 25 on a list of top places for that demographic. The study by e-commerce financial services company SmartAsset used the most recently available Census Bureau 1-year American Community Survey ...

The Concordia University School of Law in downtown Boise will close its doors for good at the end of the summer term. The surprise closure was announced on June 25. The demise of the law school comes as a shock ...