Regional Economic Development

U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), along with 12 colleagues, announced the ‘New Homestead Economic Opportunity Act,’ that would help renew the promise of the original Homestead Act to attract new residents and businesses to rural…

"We invested in the Colorado Institute of Technology because we need to have a work force that has the labor skills and the technical skills."

POCATELLO – Businessmen and county officials differ on whether establishing a port authority district in Pocatello could improve a bad economy or just be another way to tax residents. By Sean Ellis – Journal Writer…

"You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. You can learn from successful projects," he said.

"If you look at the businesses that are located in the port; if you look at the jobs that are associated with port activities, there’s a lot more money going back into the county by those businesses or by those people who have jobs," he says.

Idaho’s population increased 2.1 percent from 2000 to 2001, the seventh-highest increase in the nation, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported. By SCOTT REEVES Staff writer COEUR d’ALENE Press The state grew to…

If Inland Northwest business men and women feel wronged by Olympia or Boise, they should try swapping places with their co-sufferers in California’s Inland Empire. Bert Caldwell The Spokesman-Review The fury there among small- and…

Hans Turkensteen, a businessman from the Netherlands, is passionate about his company´s plans to produce gluten-free products from teff and the lives those products could improve. Sandra Forester The Idaho Statesman Teff is a grass…

Business leaders in Gillette and Campbell County are expected to unveil a five-year, $1.4 million economic development plan meant to diversify the local economy. The Billings Gazette The plan is based on research conducted last…

One September afternoon 10 years ago, two idealists came to a Littleton City Council meeting with a vision. It was 1992, the pit of the recession. The city had lost 7,000 jobs. One million square…