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Idaho’s federal nuclear facility can become the nation’s premier energy security lab while also bolstering the region’s economy, the new director says. Mark Peters has been on the job for about a week at the Idaho National Laboratory, where he’s ...

Jan-Pro and Maid Right – a pair of national commercial and residential cleaning firms owned by Alpharetta, Ga.-based Premium Franchise Brands – are set to add Idaho to their cleaning lists. Jan-Pro cleans commercial properties in 38 states, Washington, D.C., ...

Physicians Practice, an online and print publication for physicians and practice management professionals, has selected Idaho as the best place to be a doctor. The group’s study identified other top states as Nevada, Georgia, Texas and Utah. It chose Idaho ...

The family-owned business that includes the Post Register and three other Idaho newspapers will be purchased by Minnesota-based Adams Publishing Group, Post Co. President Jerry Brady said. Brady announced the sale in a letter to employees Oct. 6, the Post ...

The Hispanic population in Idaho is growing at a much faster pace and with a much younger population than the non-Hispanic population, a University of Idaho researcher found. And this growth is not tied to migration, as is common elsewhere ...

A start-up Hailey tech company is exploring the new frontiers of a genre called shoppertainment, backed with the confidence of a couple dozen investors willing to bankroll the venture for $651,000. Win Uru went live online Sept. 15 with a ...

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A federal judge has ruled that Tamarack Municipal Association is not liable for back rent and property taxes for the Lodge at Osprey Meadows and Osprey Meadows Golf Course, which are part of the bankrupt Tamarack Resort near Donnelly. Retired ...

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An Idaho judge has ruled that a liberal-leaning magazine did not defame one of Idaho’s wealthiest people in an article that said the businessman outed a local reporter as gay. Fourth District Judge Darla Williamson tossed out Frank VanderSloot’s lawsuit ...

Legislators serving on a bipartisan tax working group received a bit of a surprise message Oct. 6 from outgoing Department of Commerce Director Jeff Sayer: Don’t lower taxes right now. Sayer, a Gov. Butch Otter appointee who is resigning at ...

Even as regulators increased oversight of public companies, banks and the mortgage industry, they often overlooked the brokerage houses themselves that trade securities. Now a new regulator has taken over review of audits of broker-dealers, only to find that the ...