Coldwater Creek Inc., the big Sandpoint-based retailer, has adopted two new merchandising strategies designed to blunt the impact that the weather can have on its sales.Under one strategy, called buy now, wear now, Coldwater Creek is of and

Lifestream Technologies Inc. says its second-quarter sales were dramatically higher than theyve been during any other quarter in its history, and the Post Falls-based maker of cholesterol-testing devices says it expects double-digit sales growth

Two longtime restaurateurs from Northern California have bought a building in downtown Coeur dAlene and are spending $1 million to convert it into a 200-seat restaurant and nightclub to be called Brix.The restaurateurs, Bill and Janet Scott, a

AmericanWest Bank, of Spokane, plans within the next three months to close two bank branches located inside Rosauers Supermarkets Inc. stores here in a shift away from such in-store branches.AmericanWest, formerly known as United Security Bank,

The Coeur dAlenes Co., a Spokane-based metals distribution, processing, and fabrication business, this week opened a CdA Metals retail metal distribution center in Dalton Gardens, Idaho, just north of Coeur dAlene.The company is similar in

Crown West Realty LLC, the Spokane-based company that owns and operates the big Spokane Business & Industrial Park, has bought a Tempe, Ariz., office building for $20 million.The newly acquired structure, called the Elliott Corporate Center, is

Roots are important things to sisters Monica Simeon and Marina TurningRobe, both cultural roots and the ones that you dig from the ground. It took both kinds to create their young Spokane business, Sister Sky.The tiny enterprise offers an line a

James T. Tim Welsh, president of Spokane-based Garco Construction Inc., has bought the concrete-paving assets of the former Acme Materials & Construction Co., of Spokane, from CPM Development Corp. and has formed a new company here called Acme

A new report prepared for the Washington state Office of Trade and Economic Development concludes that the Spokane area has the potential to become the Northwest version of the Mayo Clinic, and that its a competitive site for biotech and last

POST FALLSBucking two trends at once, the big Harpers Manufacturing office-furniture plant here isnt laying off workers as many manufacturers are, and is expecting sales growth, at a time when many of its competitors are suffering double-digit