Jayco, Inc. announces management changes

By Joshua Palmer - Times-News writer

Jayco, Inc. announced changes in its senior management team Thursday as part of a plan to position the company for long-term growth.

Nov 20, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

Staffing companies go head-to-head

By Joshua Palmer - Times-News writer

Gem State Staffing LLC alleges that four of its employees and a former manager took confidential information from the company to start a competing business.

Nov 20, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

Business briefs

- Staff and wire reports

Deadline looms for laid-off workers

Nov 20, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

Idaho jobless rate hits 9 percent

- Times-News staff

October’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate hit 9 percent in Idaho for the first time since the aftermath of the double dip recessions in the early 1980s.

Nov 19, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

Idaho dairy exports jump more than 50% in third quarter to $31M

By Joshua Palmer - Times-News writer

Idaho dairy exports more than doubled during the third quarter of 2009, pumping more than $31 million into the state’s economy.

Nov 18, 2009 | 1:15 am | (0) Comments

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COLUMN: Losing face and looking better in downtown Twin Falls

By Joshua Palmer

Shannon Gnesa defaced her building — and it looks really good.

Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

SV Resort replaces assistant GM Guigon

By Karen Bossick - Times-News correspondent

Claude Guigon, Sun Valley’s assistant general manager for many years, has been removed from the day-to-day food and beverage operations and offered a consulting position with the resort.

Nov 18, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

Corn-crop woes

By CIndy Snyder - Times-News corespondent

REDFIELD, S.D. — In his more than 40 years of farming, Roger Masat has never started combining corn on Nov. 9.

Nov 17, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

A look at dryland ag

By Joshua Palmer - Times-News writer

Scientists at University of Idaho, Oregon State University and Washington State University want to take a long-term look at dryland agriculture and ways to sustain it in the Northwest’s interior by establishing a coordinated project to share expertise, research sites and computing power…

Nov 17, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

Debt rising in ag, but asset value curbs the pain

By Joshua Palmer - Times-News writer

Recent disruptions to commodity and financial markets have raised concerns about the financial position of U.S. farms, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.

Nov 17, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

Gooding County building permits

Building permits filed during October

Nov 16, 2009 | 5:50 pm | (0) Comments

City of Twin Falls building permits

Building permits issued in October

Nov 16, 2009 | 5:50 pm | (0) Comments

State lawmakers to introduce bill to remove federal authority from in-state firearms sales

By Joshua Palmer - Times-News writer

Idaho has been a strong supporter of the right to bear arms — even attracting firearms manufacturers from other states to spur its economy.

Nov 15, 2009 | 1:45 am | (0) Comments

New to you: Refurbishing, design business comes to Twin Falls

By Blair Koch Times-News correspondent

With finely textured walls, coated in inviting earthy tones, striking hard wood floors and attract home furnishings adorning nearly every nook, cranny and corner the showroom at Wild Orchid offers no evidence to the auto shop it once was.

Nov 13, 2009 | 1:15 am | (0) Comments

More developers delaying construction

By Joshua Palmer - Times-News writer

A Boise-based development group received approval from the city of Twin Falls planning and zoning commission earlier this week to develop more than 1.2 acres on the corner of Pole Line Road West and Washington Street North.

Nov 13, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

Business briefs

- staff reports

CSI to offer introductory course in GPS

Nov 13, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

Biz bites: Four words you will see more often in Sun Valley

By Joshua Palmer

Nov 13, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments

Paradise Café opens in Villa Shops

By Blair Koch - Times-News correspondent

An aroma of toasted bread, fried ham and coffee drifts through the quaint dining area of the Paradise Café. It’s 10 a.m. Monday and half the tables in the café are full.

Nov 11, 2009 | 1:15 am | (0) Comments

Idaho Power proposes base-rate freeze

By Nate Poppino - Times-News writer

Idaho Power Co. customers would avoid paying more into the utility’s base rates until 2012 under a proposed settlement agreement announced Monday.

Nov 11, 2009 | 1:00 am | (0) Comments