Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah – If the idea that “misery loves company” is any solace, recyclers can take comfort that the container availability, freight costs and shipping date delays plaguing them are being shared across seemingly all business sectors. A Jan. 25 online article by the Washington Post refers to “disrupted global supply chains” with symptoms that include “fresh shipping headaches” that are delaying United States exports, “crimping domestic manufacturing and threatening higher prices for American consumers.” “The cost of shipping a container of goods has risen by 80 percent since early November and has nearly tripled over the past year, according to the Freightos…

Idaho State’s men’s basketball games against Southern Utah, scheduled for Thursday and Saturday, have been canceled due to COVID-19 issues within the SUU program, according to an announcement sent out by ISU on Monday. Canceled Big Sky Conference basketball games cannot be rescheduled, per conference policy. The games represent the seventh and eighth games that the Bengals have had canceled this season, and the second two-game Big Sky series to have been thus affected.