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Idaho’s State Department of Education has a long-term goal to improve tests scores and other education achievements by Latino students but the plan has seen little success in its first two years. The strategy for reaching those goals has been ...

Backers of a proposed ballot initiative to raise more than $170 million for K-12 public schools by increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations have started collecting signatures to get the measure on the November 2020 ballot. The group started ...

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Residents of an historic Idaho building are drinking bottled water after managers found elevated lead and copper levels in water coming from some taps. The Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports the tainted water was found in Moscow’s McConnell Building. ...

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A company that builds energy-efficient modular homes aimed at providing more affordable housing plans to open a factory in southern Colorado. IndieDwell announced Monday that it will spend $13 million to convert an existing warehouse in ...

Hotel Ketchum continues to expand its retail offerings with the addition of The Hive hair salon, which specializes in colors, cuts and bridal styling. Since the whimsical hotel first opened its doors, the intention was to invite unique businesses to ...

The Meridian City Council and the Meridian Development Corp., the city’s urban renewal agency, have agreed to accept a proposal for downtown Meridian that would result in the state’s second Opportunity Zone project, in response to a request for proposal ...

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Stoel Rives has ambitious plans to improve diversity among its legal team. In September, Stoel Rives announced its participation in Diversity Lab’s Move The Needle Fund (MTN), a national effort to boost diversity and inclusion among law firms. Through its ...

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Boise is no longer one of the country’s best-kept secrets, said Brad Smith, former CEO and current executive board chairman of Intuit, a few minutes before serving as the keynote speaker for the Idaho Innovation Awards on Oct. 23 at ...

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Ada County Highway District President Rebecca Arnold announced on the last day to file that she was challenging four-term Boise mayor Dave Bieter for the 2020 election. She also run for lieutenant governor last year and as a Fourth District ...

After receiving its grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the Idaho Women’s Business Center (IWBC) is staffed and ready to go. “We have named the two grant designations IWBC East, serving the Magic Valley, South Central and Eastern ...

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