Idaho Business Review IBR

In Idaho, as in most of the West, water has always been a precious resource. Most notably, Idaho water has turned thousands of acres of desert into lush green fields that produce some of the finest crops and livestock in the ...

Low housing inventory, climbing home prices and a shortage of workers and supplies are just a few not-so-secret challenges facing stakeholders in the mortgage lending and residential real estate industries statewide, so, Idaho Business Review asked five industry stakeholders to ...

In the following Q&A, Fernando Veloz offers his perspective as someone who works on the payer side of insurance claims and benefits and as a Hispanic individual. For Veloz, the stakeholders he works with are all saying the same thing, but the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as of Aug. 23 for individuals aged 16 and older. The vaccine will retain its emergency authorization for ages 12 through 15, which was ...

E-commerce channels are the big new thing for grocers. A recent survey by market research firm Morning Consult found that the number of people who do their shopping online almost doubled during the pandemic, from 13% before COVID-19 showed up ...

The Moscow City Council gave the go-ahead on Aug. 2 to draw up the purchase agreement to sell its old police station to the University of Idaho. The sale caps two years of musical chairs involving the city, the university ...

Dear Governor Inslee:   I’m very concerned about the Washington Long-Term Care Act. So are thousands of other Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) employee-owners in several states. Forced participation in a state-mandated program is no substitute for individual choice and responsibility.  Some Washingtonians want long-term ...

The City of Ketchum wants the last large piece of open land within city limits for a preserve. There’s one small problem: it needs to raise $10 million to buy it. The land is part of the former Warm Springs ...

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It’s old news that barley is Idaho’s other number-one crop, and most of that is for malting. Idaho growers plant around a half a million acres of barley every year, most of it in eastern Idaho and the Magic Valley. ...