Sunshine Minting Co., a Coeur dAlene concern, has added 25 workers recently as it has ramped up to fulfill a five-year contract from the U.S. Mint to produce rounds of silver for collector coins, says Randy Hardy, the Idaho companys general the

Northpointe Retirement LLC, of Spokane, hopes to begin work late next month on the $9.8 million first phase of a planned 326-unit retirement facility on an about eight-acre parcel on Spokanes North Side.Richard Colliton, a principal in LLC, is

Tate Technology Inc., a 2-year-old Spokane electronics company, expects to post sales this year of about $3.6 million, more than double the $1.5 million in sales the company tallied last year.Lee Tate, owner of Tate Technology, which assembles a

The planned expansion at NorthTown Mall has been delayed againthis time until after the first of next year, says G. Rex Frazier, president and chief operating officer of JP Realty Inc., the Salt Lake City-based company that bought NorthTown in of

Ziegler Lumber Co., of Spokane, says it is selling three of its Ziggys building-supply stores in southern Idaho and southeastern Oregon and plans to use the proceeds to build additional outlets in Eastern Washington and North Idaho.Neil the of

In an age when retail music sales have been taken over mostly by megastores, mail-order vendors, and Internet conglomerates, walking into Little Nells Records, at 711 N. Monroe, is like stepping backward in time.What decade you feel like been

Dennis Wheeler, chairman, president, and CEO of Coeur dAlene Mines Corp., exudes the calm confidence of a business executive who has been tested by fire and has learned how to dodge the flames.In an industry where low metals prices have and to

Spokane is turning into a test bed of competition for digital wireless communications as the latest in a string of national and regional service providers scurry to set up networks and establish customer bases here.Five carriersAT&T Wireless,

The long-proposedand oft-dismissedidea of developing a light-rail system here is gathering momentum.The amount to be spent next year on design, engineering, and right of way for the Spokane areas envisioned system is likely to jump to $5 a

Eight Spokane employees of Providence Health Plans are among the 170 Providence workers expected to be laid off because of the planned sale of Sisters of Providence Health Systems Washington insurance operations to Regence BlueShield on Jan. 1, a