Western Rail Inc. moved to the West Plains so it would have rail service.Little did the seller of used locomotives and parts know it would end up providing rail service itself.With whats known as the Geiger spur facing closure, Western to

Construction is expected to begin in March on an $11.9 million building at North Idaho College, in Coeur dAlene, that will house the schools nursing, health-professions, and natural-science programs. The new structure is expected to help in

Actor Dennis Franzbetter known to some as Detective Andy Sipowicz, of the television drama NYPD Blueis the apparent buyer of 100 acres of property on Coeur dAlene Lakes Kidd Island Bay. Franz is said to have bought the property from USA

Spokane-area high-tech entrepreneur Bernard Daines has launched a company here that is breathing life into an underutilized Liberty Lake building as a broadband Internet paradise.The new company, Liberty Lake Internet Exchange LLC, or LLIX for

A lot of things have broken right for Potlatch Corp., helping the Spokane-based forest-products company in its successful quest to return to profitability this year, Chairman and CEO L. Pendleton Siegel told securities analysts earlier this prices

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians, continuing to add to its property holdings on the West Plains, has bought for future development another 111 acres near its 3-year-old Northern Quest Casino.The parcel extends south from the casino, located at 100

A company formed by the owners of Spokane Valley-based Lydig Construction Inc. plans to develop a $2.8 million structure in the Valley that will be the future home of ITT Technical Institutes Spokane branch.The company, East Indiana College a

WhiteRunkle Associates is in the early stages of implementing an employee stock ownership program (ESOP), says Jack White, president of the Spokane advertising agency.Separately, WhiteRunkle Interactive, a division of the firm, has landed a to

You might say Kale Bassler and Terrie Wharton have the St. Nick knack.The good friends discovered their niche after years of local craft shows at which they peddled reindeer made of clothes pins and other Christmas-themed baubles they had by in

Itronix Corp., the Spokane-based maker of rugged wireless computers, plans early next year to begin looking for a new location into which it can consolidate its operations here. Were seeing pressure on our current space, says CEO Tom We