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Micron Technology, the grande dame of Idaho’s technology industry, is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its founding this week, and, by all accounts, appears to be ready to stay in Idaho for at least another 40 years. The Boise-based company ...

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Public charter school Gem Prep Pocatello will fill the former Sears space at the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck that has been vacant for four years. Gem Prep is in a lease-to-own arrangement with Building Hope, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit ...

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The Idaho Business Review celebrated some of the state’s top finance professionals on Oct. 11 at the annual Excellence In Finance awards event. Fifteen honorees – top performers in the banking, corporate, investment and professional financial sectors – were recognized during ...

Idaho’s west central mountain communities such as McCall, Donnelley, and Cascade are trying to attract workers to improve their economic development, and they see improved broadband internet access as one avenue. “It’s a community issue,” said Andrew Mentzer, executive director ...

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If you’re heading for the McDonald’s in Hailey, don’t try looking for tall golden arches. They don’t exist. Similarly, the Albertsons grocery store on State Highway 75 doesn’t look like a typical Albertsons. Instead, it’s a plain beige-sided storefront, with ...

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Boise-based anti-fraud technology company Kount could have easily relocated into some anonymous office building in some anonymous business park in the suburbs. That would not have suited CEO Brad Wiskirchen. He wanted a new space that matched the company’s culture, ...

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The Boise nonprofit that funds the operations of new charter schools has received a $17.1 million federal grant that could fund up to 19 new and expanding charter schools that focus on disadvantaged and rural students. The amount of the ...

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Median home prices in Ada County tumbled $15,410 from August to September to $318,990, while Canyon County median home prices at $229,900 came within $45 of the all-time high in July, according to Intermountain Multiple Listing Service statistics. The September ...

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The eastern Idaho city of Driggs received a $192,000 federal transportation grant to build passenger shelters and bus pullouts at two bus stops for workers commuting to Grand Targhee Resort and Jackson, Wyoming. The bus stops are located in the ...

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When Brenda L. Sherwood moved to the Treasure Valley from Chicago almost a decade ago, a local told her something that she still quotes today: “The community can be as big or as small as you want it to be.” ...