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Over the next two years, Power County Hospital will shed its 1961 ambience to line up with modern sensibilities in a $14.95 million renovation and 15,000-square-foot expansion that will reconfigure the American Falls hospital for the future. Some early 1960s ...

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While national organizations are suggesting that banks and credit unions offer small, low-cost loans to encourage people to use financial institutions rather than payday loan companies, Idaho banks and credit unions aren’t generally adding such services. Both the Office of ...

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Backed by $1 million in donations, St. Luke’s Health System will build a 5,235-square-foot respite house in Fruitland for cancer patients traveling from hundreds of miles away for radiation treatment. The $1.6 million respite house will have four guest rooms ...

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Soy and almond drinks that bill themselves as “milk” may need to consider alternative language after a top regulator suggested the agency may start cracking down on use of the term. The Food and Drug Administration signaled plans to start ...

Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport will get a third flight to Salt Lake City starting Oct. 1 from SkyWest Airlines, a regional carrier for Delta Air Lines, the first announcement of a new flight there since Horizon Air in March ...

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Downtown living in Coeur d’Alene will include 46 new upscale apartments this fall on Mullan Avenue across the street from City Hall. The Lake Apartments will have three buildings that are linked on the second floor. The front building will ...

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A group of Japanese businessmen recently toured southern and eastern Idaho looking for business opportunities. Seven representatives from Japanese companies traveled to Idaho July 10-13 to learn more about the state and potential opportunities to partner with Idaho businesses, according ...

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Anheuser-Busch brewmaster Dave Taylor believes barley  grown in Idaho has the perfect light color and produces consistently crisp and sweet malt, thanks largely to the state’s idyllic growing conditions and its lack of disease pressure. Consequently, the maker of the ...

U.S. homebuilders sharply curtailed the pace of construction in June as housing starts plummeted 12.3 percent. The Commerce Department said July 18 that housing starts fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.17 million from 1.34 million in May. ...

A Medicaid expansion proposal has received enough signatures and will be on the November ballot. Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney said July 17 that more than 56,000 valid signatures have been counted. The signatures include at least 6 percent ...