Certain sectors of Kootenai Countys economy are racking up particularly strong job growth as the county continues to enjoy good times.Employment in education and health services jumped 8.1 percent in June over the year-earlier month for a of

Isothermal Systems Research Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of cooling technologies for electronics, has opened branch offices in both Seattle and Wichita, Kansas, and has formed a strategic partnership with Seattle-based Callison Architecture a

Whitworth College broke ground earlier this month on a $7.8 million dormitory building at the east end of its North Spokane campus. Whitworth spokesman Greg Orwig says the structure will be four stories tall and will have a total of 160 beds in

Spokane developer Steve Schmautz and his wife, Tresa, have bought an office-warehouse building in Spokane Valley thats currently home to InCyte Pathology Inc., and they plan to renovate the structure into a speculative office-retail building the

Pepsi Bottling Group Spokane says it will shut down its canned-beverage production line here next month and will begin shipping such products here from a production plant in Seattle.Twelve employees work on the production line, and 10 of them a

LFA Investments LLC, of Coeur dAlene, says it plans to develop a 74-unit, three-building condominium complex next to the Coeur dAlene Resort Golf Course.A cost estimate for the overall project wasnt disclosed, but Ken Ault, one of the in

When I am an old woman I shall wear purpleWith a red hat which doesnt go, and doesnt suit meSo starts the poem, Warning, by Jenny Joseph, with a sentence that has inspired roughly 1 million women nationwide to don purple and a

Greenstone Corp., the big Liberty Lake-based development company, plans to build a 100-home planned-unit development in the Albion Heights neighborhood in southwest Spokane. Jim Frank, president of Greenstone, says the development will be on 22

High-end condominiums in and around downtown Spokane are selling briskly at a couple of projects, and prices of unfinished units are climbing higher in at least one instance.Meantime, more condominium developments are being considered or are in

With diesel prices above $3 a gallon and some Inland Northwest farmers having difficulty finding enough fuel to keep their machinery operating, four Spokane and Whitman county agricultural cooperatives are weighing development of a biodiesel plant