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Around the world, health care providers have been tested like never before by the unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak. In Idaho, doctors and nurses moved quickly to offer critical care to coronavirus patients and slow the spread of the virus when it ...

Kootenai County has a problem. Its highways were last updated back when President Richard Nixon resigned. Since that time, the county’s population has exploded 340% and all those people are driving around on 800 miles of antiquated highways more than ...

Home sales across the country got a boost over the summer due to pent-up demand, low mortgage rates and buyers looking for larger homes in less densely populated regions like Boise. Nationally, by the end of the summer, both existing and new ...

In the Treasure Valley, the hottest contest in the upcoming general election is not the one for U.S. President. It’s the tussle over three seats on the Board of Commissioners of the Ada  County Highway Department. At stake is the ...

It’s been well advertised that Idaho has made a remarkable recovery from the economic downturn created by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in terms of employment. To gain a snapshot of which industries took the worst hit during the spring lockdown ...

Property management services company HomeRiver Group has announced its acquisition of Property Frameworks, which, leadership stated, will complement the practices of both companies. The acquisition will expand operations into over 20 states, according to a joint press release, and approximately ...

Intermountain Healthcare, which acquired Treasure Valley’s Saltzer Health, announced that it will cut 250 positions in a press release issued on Oct. 13. The release stated that the cuts will “lower overhead and make health services more affordable.” Intermountain said that ...

As the growing season is underway, federal grant funding is being offered to support farming and industry research. The University of Illinois, in partnership with Washington State University, will be conducting projects in 10 states (including Idaho) around “precision agriculture” ...

Two new rent studies using different datasets and different methodologies came up with Boise apartment rental statistics that are remarkably similar. The first study was conducted by apartmentlist.com, a national apartment broker. Because the firm’s own rentals tend to the ...

ST. LOUIS, MO — As millions of people work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, their homes are quickly becoming the new battleground with hackers who seek to access their sensitive information, cybersecurity experts warn. On Sept. 30, Thompson Coburn ...