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Idaho First Bank is planning to open a new branch in the 11th & Idaho nine-story office building in downtown Boise, according to developer Rafanelli & Nahas. It is expected to open this summer. “Opening an office in Boise’s most stunning office ...

D.L. Evans Bank has announced that Kelsey Zimmerlee has been promoted to the position of operations supervisor at the Boise Vista branch. She has been a part of the D.L. Evans Bank team for five months, starting as a personal ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration has made a number of changes to its Paycheck Protection Program and other federal aid programs intended to help American small businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, this week begins availability for the Shuttered ...

D.L. Evans Bank has announced that Justin Kostial has been promoted to the position of vice president branch manager at the Rexburg branch. He joined the D.L. Evans Bank four years ago as a vice president commercial loan officer and ...

Mountain West Bank has promoted Nick Sutton, a commercial lender at its Boise Financial Center, to vice president. He has 15 years of banking experience and joined Mountain West Bank in 2013, serving as an assistant relationship manager before being ...

Commercial Tire has recently joined a number of other Idaho-based businesses in announcing the incorporation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, commonly called an ESOP. While the percentage of employee ownership can vary, Commercial Tire opted to become 100% employee-owned. ...

Harris CPA has promoted two partners and two directors. David Hegstrom, CPA has been promoted to partner in the Meridian office. He was previously a director and has been with the firm for more than three  years. He has more ...

Commercial Loan Officer Sean Edwards from Bank of Idaho has been promoted to assistant vice president and senior lender, which comes with a transfer to the institution’s Treasure Valley headquarters in downtown Boise. The development has spawned a chain reaction of sorts, ...

Before needing to go on a COVID-required hiatus,  the Idaho Legislature passed a bill defining what COVID-19 relief is and is not taxable in Idaho. House Bill 251 was introduced by Rep. Dustin Manwaring of Pocatello. It started its crawl ...

Zions Bank’s Business Resource Center in Boise, which provides classes, one-on-one business counseling and guest speakers to existing and prospective small business owners, was started in 2013 by Karen Appelgren and Sheila Spangler, who had helped start a previous incarnation ...