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Federal officials have agreed to settle a lawsuit with environmental groups that prevents domestic sheep from grazing in eastern Idaho until a scientific study addressing how they might threaten bighorn sheep with deadly diseases is completed. The U.S. Forest Service ...

Want a loan? Advice? When an employee needs help, many small business owners are comfortable mixing the personal with the professional and willingly provide some support. J. Colin Petersen has assisted staffers in a variety of ways: extra cash, lawyer ...

If you thought the only problem with Jack’s Urban Meeting Place (JUMP) in downtown Boise is that it didn’t have enough antique tractors, you’re in luck. The remaining half of more than a hundred pieces of farm equipment that Jack ...

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Salt Lake City-based commercial real estate firm Newmark Grubb ACRES established a Boise mobile presence in April with two agents. Newmark Grubb ACRES is an affiliate of Newmark Knight Frank, a national Top 10 largest commercial real estate firm. Boise ...

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Meridian is finally getting around to figuring out what to do with its old city hall, 10 years after moving into its new one. The city and Meridian Development Corp. jointly put out a request for proposal May 3 for ...

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Real estate broker Mike Swope believes a trend of more out-of-state dollars flowing into the Idaho market has been inflating the state’s housing prices and pushing many local investors to the sidelines. Swope, who specializes in multifamily properties with Boise-based ...

TSA just missed a record for the number of people screened at airport checkpoints as the July 4 holiday travel period started with a bang. The Transportation Security Administration said Monday that it screened about 2.68 million passengers and airline ...

Idaho’s largest law firm, Hawley Troxell, just grew larger with the acquisition of a three-lawyer firm in eastern Idaho. The Boise-based Hawley Troxell said July 2 that it had added Bailey, Hahn & Jarman, effective July 1. In addition to ...

American manufacturing expanded at an unexpectedly fast pace in June, another sign of strength for U.S. industry. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchase managers, says its manufacturing index rose in June to 60.2. That’s the highest ...

Curtis Fletcher is president and CEO of Prefab Logic, a Boise company that coordinates modular construction projects. Fletcher, who is trained as an architect, started his manufacturing career with the recreational vehicle company Fleetwood. In 2004, he founded a company ...