Enrollment in real estate classes at Inland Northwest colleges is on the rise as enrollees seek qualification to reach for their share of an increasingly lucrative real estate pie.Classes offered by North Idaho College at its Work Force Center,

An effort to promote energy-efficient home construction is sprouting in the Spokane area.A consortium of Pacific Northwest power companies, public agencies, and other groups has started the Energy Star Homes Northwest program, through which in

The second phase of a $6 million reconstruction of Government Way, one of Coeur dAlenes main north-south arterials, began recently and is slated to be completed in August, says Dick Suchocki, the citys engineering project manager.When the

Bids on the long-anticipated Third Avenue reconstruction project in downtown Spokane came in higher than the city had expected, and that will delay the scheduled April 1 start of the project.Eller Corp., of Newman Lake, submitted the apparent a

Bank of Whitman, based in Colfax, Wash., says it has bought a downtown Spokane office-building project in which it will be an anchor tenant, and has reduced the size of the planned building to three stories from five.The project, which is well

About $24 million worth of subcontracting work on the big Spokane Convention Center expansion project has been awarded, with the bulk of the contracts going to Spokane-area concerns.The Spokane Public Facilities District and Hoffman-Bouten, a a

The city of Spokane, in cooperation with others, is working on plans to enlarge a broadband wireless-communication network that currently covers just a 100-block area of downtown.The goal is to provide a greatly expanded grid for the technology

84 Lumber Co., an Eighty Four, Pa.-based building materials chain, plans to open a large manufacturing and wholesale operation in Post Falls this summer to serve Inland Northwest contractors, says company spokeswoman Robyn Hall.The project is a

Three Coeur dAlene developers plan to build a seven-story condominium-office building in the heart of downtown Coeur dAlene later this year.Construction of the 40,000-square-foot structure at 609 Sherman Ave., just northeast of the former a

When Nancy Spada bought a piece of Mata Ortiz pottery at a Spokane auction in 2000 she didnt know that it was made by some of the poorest people in North America.She just knew it was high-quality craftsmanship and that she wanted more. She of