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The IVRC is Idaho’s first networking and education council for Idaho’s leaders and innovators interested in virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality.

The 36-member Higher Education Task Force and the 17-member Workforce Development Task Force are to study and recommend how best to address Idaho’s "K-through-Career" education and job training needs beyond high school.

About 20 states have tax incentives designed to attract data centers and five states don’t have sales tax. The exemption would help Idahoattract data centers and additional investment in technology, said Bobbi-Jo Meuleman, chief operating officer at the Idaho Department of Commerce.

Idaho would join 20 other states currently offering sales tax incentives to data centers under newly introduced legislation.

Treasure Valley techies and others with entrepreneurial genes now have a place to work on their startup ideas in the company of like-minded dreamers: Trailhead, the "coworking" space that opened in February 2015

The Idaho Dairymen’s Association estimates those workers make up more than 85 percent of the state’s 8,300 dairy employees.

LeanLaw creates cloud-based productivity software for lawyers so that they can lower overhead and be free to practice the kind of law that made them want to be lawyers in the first place.

11 Republicans on the panel approved the proposed slate of science standards after five paragraphs* mentioning the topics were removed from the initial draft. The committee’s three Democrats voted against removing the climate change language.

At one point, ISU had 1,200 Saudi and Kuwaiti students, almost 10 percent of its enrollment, up from just 16 such students in 2006.