Idaho Business Review IBR

With this year’s Black Lives Matter movement, a number of people are looking for ways to support Idaho’s Black-owned businesses. However, it isn’t always easy to find them. Enter the African American Chamber of Commerce. Chapters have been springing up ...

There are a number of adjectives one could use to describe Cara Vierstra: rodeo champion, twenty-something, farm girl, native Idahoan, young entrepreneur. No single one of them does her justice. The Idaho Business Review sought Vierstra out after the staff ...

The Idaho Business Review asked the State of Idaho how the economic position for the state may have been affected by the national election results. Alex Adams of the Division of Financial Management provided us with the state’s current forecast, ...

Earlier this year, something happened in Idaho that hasn’t happened for a long time: A new bank opened. That was Bright Bank, which opened its first branch in downtown Boise and its second in West Boise. Originally intended to be ...

After having last year’s skiing season cut short due to concerns over COVID-19, Idaho’s ski areas are gearing up for this winter season. Brad Wilson, general manager of the Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area, was also named president of the Idaho Ski ...

Scott Schoenherr is the Boise face of Rafanelli and Nahas Management Corporation, one of the best-known developers in downtown Boise. The firm is finishing up the last touches on the office building it began erecting last year at the corner ...

Brandie Chapman of Coeur d’Alene did something most people would consider close to insane: she opened a franchise business in the middle of the pandemic. Then she busted all expectations and odds as her business took off, keeping five newly-employed ...

Wayne Hammon, CEO of the Idaho Associated General Contractors, issued an economic overview of construction firms in Idaho and their ongoing need of employees at the beginning of October, based on an analysis by AGC of America’s Chief Economist Ken Simonson. ...

Because both national and Idaho-specific datasets report widely varying COVID-19 test positivity results, the Idaho Business review asked the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare about the details of how it manages its COVID-19 data. We interviewed Kathryn Turner, Ph.D. ...

Less than a week before Dan McElhinney’s appointment as the Idaho Transportation Department’s chief operating officer, the state’s main north-south highway was closed due to rockslides — some the size of the house. Some people might have taken that as an ...