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Eighty-mile-an-hour clear sailing should return in the next week or two on Interstate 84 across the Magic Valley. Much of the last year and a half has seen 70 mph limits and, since July, just 65 mph on two-lane, two-way ...

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U.S. home construction rebounded in August at the fastest pace in seven months but applications for new building permits plunged, sending mixed signals for an industry that has been struggling with rising lumber costs. Housing starts increased 9.2 percent in ...

La Grande, Oregon,-based Barreto Manufacturing has purchased the 145,000-square-foot former mill site in Horseshoe Bend that Boise Cascade shut down in 1998. The purchase for an undisclosed amount closed Aug. 23. The 40-acre property includes two manufacturing buildings adding up ...

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The city of Ketchum recently completed a three-block sidewalk project on Warm Springs Road to give pedestrians a more pleasant walk from downtown to Rotary Park, the YMCA, the skateboard park and the industrial park. The new sidewalk is on ...

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Contractors in the Boise region say workplace thefts are on the rise, with plumbing fixtures, wood boards and even landscaping plants being stolen from building sites. The Idaho Statesman reports Tradewinds General Contracting has had more than $20,000 in losses at one ...

The most expensive part of installing fiber optic cabling to provide high-speed broadband internet to a community is the hole. Because entities such as roads, utilities and irrigation districts regularly dig up the ground anyway, some people are calling for ...

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For a year or more, Albertsons said the Noodles & Company and liquor store would remain as the old, adjoining Albertsons and other strip center space was demolished and a new deluxe Albertsons opened July 20 on Broadway at Beacon ...

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Construction has begun on the new Oregon State Police crime lab in Pendleton. The East Oregonian reports Fortis Constriction Inc. has started work on the foundation of the nearly $1.25 million project. The city issued a building permit for the 9,500-square-foot facility ...

No site in Idaho has been as lauded for architectural design and significance as the Intermountain Gas headquarters complex in Boise, completed in 1966 on what was then the western edge of the city. The four-building complex, designed by architect ...

Boise Centre proved to be the perfect setting for the Idaho Business Review’s 2018 Top Projects event on Sept. 13. The downtown convention center’s recent expansion was awarded the Project of the Year honor by the distinguished panel of 12 ...