In May 2016, the federal government mandated that transgender students should be able to use the bathroom of their choice. The decision was roundly criticized throughout Idaho as federal overreach. However, almost two years later, some of the state’s public ...

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Linen District developer David Hale started construction in November on the second set of Idaho Street Townhomes in downtown Boise on the block between 16th and 17th Street. Hale finished the first set of nine townhomes on that lot in ...

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A set of 21 apartments in two buildings is under construction off Warm Spring Road next to the Idaho History Center and a short walk from the Idaho Botanical Gardens. The first three-story building of the Warm Springs Apartments should ...

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Idaho Urologic Institute broke ground Jan. 9 on a new Nampa clinic near the relocated Saint Alphonsus Medical Center Nampa I-84/Garrity. The new, 3,600-square-foot urologic institute will be on Hunt Avenue, across the freeway from Saint Alphonsus and near the ...

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Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport has started construction on an airport operations building that will enable the airport to house all of its rescue, firefighting and winter equipment in one building. The $6 million, 13,000-square-foot building will have room for ...

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Twin Falls-based Family Health Services will build a new 10,000-square-foot medical clinic where a long vacant former Minico Auto Parts still stands in downtown Rupert. Family Health will relocate its 2,500-square-foot Rupert clinic, which since 2015 has occupied a lot ...

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Ten months after snow flattened a section of the Ridley’s Family Market in Weiser, the Jerome-base grocer has found a new location in the Washington County city for a bigger store. Ridley’s expects to start construction “in a few months, ...

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A sharp rise in the value of building permits issued in Parma this year reflects a sudden growth of business in the small western Idaho city. Parma issued building permits valued at $3.3 million in 2017. Last year, it issued ...

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Ridley’s Family Markets will wrap up its expansion of its McCall supermarket by 15,000 square feet in January, a company official said. The larger 50,000-square-foot store featured a newfull-service sushi bar and coffee shop, and a produce section that is ...

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Every spring, the freeze and thaw cycle in McCall cracks the downtown streets, sending city crews rushing to patch up the pavements. The cycle repeats year after year on a base pavement that likely dates back 50 or more years, ...

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