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The American flag hanging from a crane at the opening of Jervois Global Ltd.'s Idaho Cobalt Operations mine southwest of Salmon. Photo courtesy of the Office of Gov. Brad Little Long before electric vehicles (EV) were even on the horizon, an exploration venture called Formation Capital Corporation (FCC) in the 1990s began poking holes in

After more than 15 years of studying possibilities for the site, the Ada County Commissioners issued a formal request for qualifications (RFQ) on June 13 with the goal of selecting a design firm for the redevelopment of 88 acres at Expo Idaho, the county property officially located at 5610 N. Glenwood St. in a portion

Read More IBR Headlines 21.05% of all Idaho holders of student loan debt are at or above the age of 50, according to data from the Enterprise Data Warehouse, publicly available through the Federal Student Aid office of the U.S. Department of Education. This puts Idaho slightly over the national aver…

The mortgage markets have seen two percentage point increases in less than a year and some shorter-term mortgage types have sprouted interest rates that can exceed those of longer-term 15- and 20-year fixed-rate products. These curve-inversion behaviors are uncommon, and it may take home-buyer educa…

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Micron Technology Inc. released a new sustainability report on July 6. The move reflects two trends. The first is the ESG movement. ESG stands for “Environment, Sustainability, Governance.” The relatively-young ESG movement aims for businesses to be environmentally responsible, to act in ways that d…

In the Tri-Cities region of rural Washington, many in the ranching business call it Cattlegate, a multiyear saga of fraud involving over 200,000 fictitious cattle sold to Big-Four meat packer Tyson. The losses were so huge that Tyson had to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revise four years of earnings. ...

In Downtown Boise, office life has made a big comeback. That was the message at the May 19 lunchtime meeting of the Idaho branch of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA). The event hosted a panel whose topic was the state of Downtown Boise office space, returning workers and parking. T…

The Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition (PRDC) filed its third lawsuit on March 22 to block the construction of the new 6.5-mile four-lane divided-highway section of US-95 south of Moscow. The new roadway as currently designed will cross the prairie below Paradise Ridge before crossing Moscow city limi…