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In response to industry pushback, a bill that is intended to make it easier for restaurants to get liquor licenses has been rewritten and resubmitted. The original bill, which was held in the Senate State Affairs Committee in mid-February, would ...

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Faced with a housing shortage and skyrocketing rents, Oregon became the first state to impose mandatory rent controls when Gov. Kate Brown signed a pioneering measure last week. The bill establishing tenant protections had moved swiftly through the Legislature. Many ...

The surge of growth in Meridian is impacting not only the city’s demand for homes and schools, but also the necessary resources to keep the community safe. One of Meridian’s priorities — getting fire station No. 6 built in one of ...

Information presented by the Small Business Administration (SBA) about a grant to bring a Women’s Business Center to Idaho was incorrect – the grant does require the center to service the whole state. Attendees at a series of three workshops ...

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The Idaho Supreme Court says individuals have the right to sue if they think someone implied — but didn’t outright say — something defamatory. The ruling was handed down Monday in a lawsuit brought by former teacher James Verity against ...

A proposed construction project in Nampa where online retailer Amazon is presumed to be the intended tenant has been delayed. The City of Nampa announced Thursday that the Newport Beach, California-based developer of a project, referred to by the code ...

With its site under redevelopment, Meridian’s New Ventures Lab incubator and coworking space has shut down, and the director is looking for a new location for the facility. The City of Meridian gave the building, the former Meridian City Hall, ...

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Five finalists have been named in the search for the next president of Boise State University. The Idaho State Board of Education announced the finalists Sunday. They were picked from a list of more than 60 candidates vying to become ...

The American Bar Association has granted full approval to a Boise-based law school that struggled with accreditation. Concordia University-Portland announced in 2007 it would open a law school in downtown Boise, and spent several years raising money to build the ...

Taking another step toward eliminating Idaho’s mainframe, the Idaho State Controller’s office said it was issuing an intent to award to Infor Public Sector Inc. for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. ERP is a modular software system intended to integrate ...

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