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Cyndi Bonetti is amazed at the number of times she’s asked about the status of Tamarack resort. “People walk in and automatically assume because the resort is going through bankruptcy that the place is full of weeds and mothballed,” she ...

Novelty ice cream producer Matterhorn Group Inc., with Idaho ties, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to court documents, the case was filed on July 26, in Sacramento, Calif. In 2005, the Caldwell-based Matterhorn Ice Cream Company merged with ...

Idaho Rep. Walt Minnick, hoping to fend off a looming wave of commercial loan defaults and a continuing decline in real estate prices, was preparing to introduce a bill July 22 that aims to avoid catastrophe for banks, property owners ...

Randy Hopkins, a private money lender since 1983, didn’t set out to become a homebuilder. But the Hopkins Financial Services principal did it anyway, launching HFS Homes LLC in mid-2009 despite southwest Idaho’s sagging housing market. The goal: Lose less ...

Hazel Asphalt LLC is the kind of business that banks are looking to finance with a U.S. Small Business Administration-backed loan. The recently sold Nampa business has a long track record, an experienced operator, and assets that work well as ...

Tech and media moguls gathered here for an annual confab this week sounded a mostly cautious note on the economy. Big debts and still-depressed housing prices will continue to weigh on consumers, said Greg Maffei, CEO of Liberty Media Corp., ...

As of July 1, 2010, Idaho residents are able to apply for a new pre-existing condition insurance plan administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Idahoans who have been unable to obtain health insurance due to a ...

Workers’ compensation insurance specialist Employers Holdings Inc., which fields a Boise office, has reorganized operations to “eliminate duplicative services and better align resources with business activity and growth opportunities,” the Reno-based company said in a July 2 filing with the ...

Pilot Travel Centers LLC has completed its $1.8 billion purchase of Flying J Inc.’s chain of truck stops and travel plazas with an agreement to sell some locations to a competitor. The FTC is requiring the Knoxville-based owner of the ...

A $1.2 million judgment and a permanent injunction has been levied against a Meridian real estate fund manager. Ada County District Judge Greenwood has entered the judgment and injunction against Sheila Jones, aka Sheila Kilborn, aka Sheila Johnson on June ...