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The most important thing lawmakers did in the 2015 legislative session was to increase funding for education, said Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch Otter. “The next generation of your products, your services and your ability to manage your businesses is sitting ...

Purchases of new U.S. homes surged in the Northeast and West and, especially, in Ada County, in May, as steady job growth over the past year has lifted the real estate sector. The Commerce Department said June 23 that new-home ...

The region’s transportation planning agency will give out about $103,000 in grants during this year to 10 member organizations for small projects. The Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho is focusing these grants on three specific tasks: •  Provide better ...

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A Sandy, Utah-based soup-salad-and-sandwich chain will anchor the next chapter of the nearly vacant Broadway 111 shopping center. With the last tenant, Blimpie, shutting down June 28, the center owner, commercial brokerage Hawkins & Cannariato, will spend the coming months ...

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Kuna is planning a downtown revitalization program. Planning for the improvements will be largely funded with a $16,000 grant from the Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho. The grant will pay about three-quarters of the cost for strategic planning to ...

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Two former Micron Technology business directors are working with a local bee and wine expert on a new company, Kairosys, that will use high-tech sensors to help farmers manage bees and otherwise help farmers do their jobs better. “I’m calling ...

Credit unions in Idaho continue to outpace their peers in other states. Idaho credit unions have the highest growth in loan volume and second-highest growth in assets and members for the first three months of 2015. Idaho credit unions also ...

The Ada County Paramedics have given a full makeover to their Station 17 at 1666 Ridenbaugh St. in the North End. The $750,000 remodel transformed a mid-century brick building into a modern “home” for paramedics, while retaining the basic historic ...

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A woman is rushed to the emergency room with abdominal pain and, while being examined, her heart races out of control and she suffers a fatal stroke. Unbeknownst to the ER doctor, the woman had previously been diagnosed with tachycardia. ...

The College of Western Idaho expects to add 32.5 acres of land to its northern boundary as purchase of the land is expected to close in the next two weeks, the college reported. This $815,000 expansion will expand the campus ...