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SMHeuristics, which participated in the recent trade mission to Taiwan and Hong Kong with Gov. Brad Little, came home with a lot more than postcards and T-shirts: Four memoranda of understanding and meetings with 17 companies. “The relationships have been ...

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Following the lead of other small Idaho cities such as Ammon and Emmett, McCall is creating a fiber-optic infrastructure, Rapid McCall, to provide up to 1 gigabit per second internet service to homes by next summer. McCall will install, own ...

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Idaho’s technology industry is going to take another shot at a sales tax exemption for data center equipment. “I think this will be the year for data center legislation,” Jay Larsen, president and CEO of the Idaho Technology Council, at ...

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As an important deadline approaches, Idaho’s Opportunity Zones are getting more attention from inside and outside the state. At the same time, the state could lose two of its 28 Opportunity Zones. Opportunity Zones, a community development program established by ...

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Brad Frazer wants to help Idaho companies protect their intellectual property and avoid “leaving money on the table.” A member of Hawley Troxell’s business and finance group, he also chairs the firm’s internet and intellectual property group. Frazer has shared ...

A plan to raise money for roads didn’t work out for Valley County during the recent election. The west central county, which includes McCall, tried to raise $2 million through a road levy to help replace federal funding the county ...

Gov. Brad Little has returned from a nine-day trade mission to Hong Kong and Taiwan, but it may take years for the trip to bear fruit. “You don’t know for a long time,” Little said, noting that Idaho just got ...

Downtown Mountain Home is getting a new look. By mid-December, the community’s first phase of downtown revitalization is scheduled to be completed roughly three months after it broke ground. The dated infrastructure hadn’t been updated since the 1960s, said Courtney ...

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Idahoans with felony criminal records may have an easier time getting a job if a proposed bill comes to fruition. The legislation, called the Fair Chance Employment Act, doesn’t let employers include language in job ads to exclude people with ...

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HP’s Boise campus isn’t at risk of a government takeover, according to the Idaho Department of Administration. Speculation that HP would be forced to leave when its lease expires isn’t true, said Bryan Mooney, director of the Department of Administration. ...

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