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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The Whitetail Club private community in McCall has been spending the last couple years diversifying beyond the $2-million custom homes that established the 1,300-acre enclave in 2004. First came cabins, then cottages, and now Whitetail is adding 34 townhomes along ...

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St. Luke’s McCall Medical Center has been designated as a Level IV trauma center, the only state-designated trauma center between Grangeville and Boise. McCall is the first St. Luke’s Health System facility to achieve trauma center designation, though St. Luke’s ...

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McCall wants to inspire high-salary San Francisco and Seattle residents to do their remote jobs from the West Central Mountains. A Facebook advertising campaign starting in the first week or two of August will encourage people who work at certain ...

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The first set of five home lots is ready for developers at the Eagle Lake subdivision a couple blocks south of Shore Lodge in McCall. By fall, Eagle Lake will have eight lots, four with waterfronts on a small pond, ...

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With Idaho simultaneously the nation’s fastest-growing state, but stuck at No. 36 for housing affordability, there is an increasing need for affordable multifamily housing, particularly in the fast-growing Treasure Valley and resort communities such as McCall. “Affordable multifamily housing” means ...

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Vacasa, the Portland-based vacation property management firm, on Feb. 6 acquired Accommodation Services in McCall and its 75 short-term rental home accounts. The acquisition more than doubles Vacasa’s presence in McCall to 130 privately owned vacation homes that it manages ...

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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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Back in the day, resort workers lived in town, maybe four to an apartment or in an odd room here or there. These days, many people who serve tables and wax skis end up living two or three towns down ...

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For 26 years, McCall’s alternative high school has bounced from the school district’s basement to Ponderosa Park and a building on Highway 55 to 20 years in a pair of trailers at the edge of McCall-Donnelly High School. Since February, ...

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