Idaho

Boise planners work on emergency ordinance to address substandard lots; infill task force created to work on standards for in-fill development.

Growth of the Boise metro area has created a need for qualified planners. Boise State University responds with a plan to launch an Institute for Urban and Regional Planning degree program.

Best-laid growth plans often just gather dust. A look at why plans for local transportation and growth management in Idaho's Treasure Valley never materialized.

Anticipating a new freeway interchange developers are planning new shopping centers, apartments, office buildings and stores.

Idaho's property taxes are rising rapidly to keep up with population growth. Idahoans don't like it.

Idaho's housing boom is expected to survive the end of the so-called housing bubble.

How agriculture is changing in Idaho's Treasure Valley region where farms are giving way to new surburban development.

Do Idaho's laws restrict what cities can do to control growth?

Forbes Magazine rates Boise, Idaho as top draw for cost of doing business and ability to attract talented workers.

Boise locals find bad, good in Treasure Valley's inevitable growth.

Bureau of Reclamation official delivers tough message to Western Water Conference attendees

Finding a solution the water problem in the western U.S. is not going to be easy.

How you water your lawn will affect what you pay for scarce resource in Idaho's growing Treasure Valley Region.

Experts will convene at a conference -- Troubled Water: Exploring Solutions for the Water Crisis -- to discuss the problem of world water shortages.

Mayor Dave Beiter of Boise, ID, wants Ada County to amend zoning rules.

Turf battles, private property rights, and rural growth are hot button issues.

Meridian, a suburb of Boise, Idaho, struggles with growth projections and new developments.

Developers abandoned their plans to build what would have been Idaho's largest residential development saying the project´s progress has been bled dry by too many government regulations.

A development rights deal in northern Idaho is the latest example of conservation groups making deals with their historic foes to slow suburban sprawl.

Ketchum, Idaho started life as a modest town. It's now a haven for the wealthy, forcing out lower-, middle- and een upper-middle-income families.