IDAHO

Officials predict St. Luke’s Meridian and ISU’s Health Science Center will help attract health care, technology and related industries to Meridian

The grants are available through a U.S. Department of Education program that aims to provide students with activities such as art, music, recreation and sports when they aren’t in school.

“This has mobilized people to get things done in their communities that they’ve wanted to get done for a long time.”

The money will also finance a new outage management system and irrigation load control program to reduce peak and overall energy use and improve system reliability.

Otter didn’t gloss over the state’s poor economic condition, which led to the first round of budget holdbacks starting more than a year ago.

A new state law required districts to declare an emergency before taking measures like cutting teacher pay, hours or contract length.

New businesses and civic improvements in Emmett are bringing new hope to the former wood products and fruit-growing area.

If North Idaho’s tourism industry is to thrive despite the nation’s economic conditions, businesses catering to the traveler must help change the way the state is viewed by the rest of the country.

The Idaho Procurement Technical Assistance Center helps companies learn about how to write bids seek grants and submit bids.

A well-known nonprofit program that provides refurbished computers for students has sprouted an unexpected offshoot: a business that erases data on hard drives.