At the Flex Work Space project in west Boise, they’re doing what they can to get office-property sales moving. Some of the office condos can be purchased after three years at today’s prices with nothing down. Cameron Investments, Boise, owns ...
Read More »Biggest 1-month jobless drop in Idaho since ’83
A surge in hiring across most of the economy sent Idaho’s forecasted seasonally adjusted unemployment rate down three-tenths of a percentage point in March to 9.1 percent in April. It was the rate’s largest one-month decline since 1983, when the ...
Read More »Spring snow too little, too late: BPA warns electricity rates could rise
Bonneville Power Administration officials are warning that low snow levels may show up as higher prices of transmission for consumers in the Northwest. “This is a bad situation that has just gotten worse,” said BPA Administrator Steve Wright. “We had ...
Read More »New power line routes considered for Langley Gulch
Idaho Power has asked Canyon County to table a hearing on the transmission connection for its Langley Gulch Power Plant from May 6 to a future date. The hearing was to consider the company’s application to the county, through the ...
Read More »Kuna expo opens students’ eyes to agriculture
It’s agricultural exposition season at a number of Idaho high schools. Kuna’s event, held every other year, drew about 4,500 students in first and second grades during the week of May 3. Kuna High School students run the multi-day event, ...
Read More »Heyburn man milks the ‘Thrifty Dipper’ 
It was an “udder disaster” that led to Dennis Hakes’ first invention for the dairy industry. One of the milkers at his Nebraska dairy had mistaken the hydrochloric acid used to clean a milk scale for the germicide that’s applied ...
Read More »Commission denies Idaho Power request to make cost adjustment permanent
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is denying a petition by Idaho Power Company to make the pilot Fixed Cost Adjustment (FCA) program permanent. The results of the program are “mixed” and there are still too many unanswered questions, the commission ...
Read More »Parma ag research center embarks on first season with outside support 
The University of Idaho Parma Research and Extension Center is in its first year of carrying out a five-year, $1.5 million agreement with J.R. Simplot Co. The agreement, which supports Simplot research and general operations of the Parma facility, was ...
Read More »Farmers markets begin to bloom this spring 
The bitter winds and chilly overcast mornings may have cloaked the arrival of spring in recent days, but it’s hard to deny the season has arrived with farmers markets across the state flaunting their first batches of locally grown herbs, ...
Read More »Hecla Mining reports higher earnings
Hecla Mining Co. on April 28 reported net income of $21.8 million for the first quarter compared to $7.3 million a year earlier, the Coeur d’Alene-based company said in a release. After dividend to holders of preferred stock, the company ...
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