Great Falls, Mont.-based Western lifestyle retailer Big R Stores has started work on a $4 million expansion of its Coeur d'Alene store. The expansion project will add 50,000 square feet of floor space to the store at 170 E. Kathleen, nearly tripling it

T.W. Clark Construction LLC, of Spokane, has begun work on a $6.6 million project that will replace the 89-year-old Winton Elementary School, in Coeur d'Alene. The school is located at 920 W. Lacrosse, about a mile northwest of downtown Coeur d'Alene

Acme Concrete Paving Inc., of Spokane, is the apparent low bidder on an about $7.8 million second phase of a taxiway reconfiguration project at the Spokane International Airport, and expects to be awarded the job, says Robert Seghetti, president of Acme.

A California-based contractor and real estate developer has obtained building permits for 20 duplex structures valued at $124,800 each in north Coeur d'Alene.

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell last week joined Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price, co-chair of the bipartisan coalition of Mayors for Parks, to announce that $43.4 million will be distributed from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to all 50 states,

The city of Spokane has sent out for rebid the contract for a projected $3.7 million combined sewer overflow tank to be built on east Sprague Avenue near the Hamilton overpass, says city spokeswoman Marlene Feist.