North Idaho

Silverwood Theme Park's sales outpacing last year's

North Idaho attraction says it's on record-setting track

June 16, 2016

Though early into the 2016 season, officials at Silverwood Theme Park in North Idaho say they could experience a record-setting year for attendance based on early sales. 'We're up about 8 or 9 percent in sales of season passes and other group discoun

Powering drones at Vertical Partners Northwest

Commercial battery sales expected to overtake hobby sector

June 16, 2016

Mike McLean

Though Rathdrum-based Vertical Partners West LLC has become a major supplier of batteries and chargers to remote-controlled model hobbyists during the last 15 years, commercial sales driven by the surging drone market could overtake the hobby sales this y

Rathdrum Trading Post is planning its second move this year

New owner plans to add space, renovate structure

June 16, 2016

Mike McLean

Rathdrum Trading Post Hardware plans to move this summer-again. It will be the second move for the independent hardware store this year. The store's permanent location will be in a 12,000-square-foot structure under construction about a half-mile so

Alliance Data expands in Coeur d'Alene

Company plans to add 200 workers by year-end

June 2, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Alliance Data Systems Corp., the Plano, Texas-based credit-card, customer-service call center operator, has expanded its Coeur d'Alene operations by moving into an additional 75,000-square-foot building, and intends to add 200 more employees there by th

Spate of highway projects in works in North Idaho

ITD recently has awarded $12.4 million in contracts

June 2, 2016

Mike McLean

The Idaho Transportation Department recently has awarded contracts totaling $12.4 million for highway projects now in their early construction stages in North Idaho, says Marvin Fenn, the department's Coeur d'Alene-based District 1 engineering manager

Post Falls Medical Boom

Health care sector provides community hundreds of jobs

June 2, 2016

Mike McLean

Post Falls, once considered a bedroom community to both Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, has become home to a vibrant medical district that's brought hundreds of health care jobs to the River City. The growth in medical and health services and facilities i

Hecla Mining agrees to acquire Mines Management

Transaction is scheduled to be completed in the third quarter

May 24, 2016

Staff Report

Coeur d'Alene-based Hecla Mining Co. said this morning that it has agreed to acquire Mines Management Inc., of Spokane. The transaction is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2016 and is subject to approval by Mines Management shareh

Post Falls parts maker restrengthens through reshoring

Swiss Tech owner took over operations last June

May 19, 2016

Mike McLean

Swiss Tech Precision USA, a Post Falls company that makes critical metal parts that other manufacturers use in a variety of products, is regaining strength largely through reshoring efforts of its U.S. customers, says Christopher Mark Choate, who bought S

New T-O Engineers office scores work on 10 projects

Firm currently employs 5 in Spokane, to add more

April 21, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Since opening its first Washington office here this past December, Meridian Idaho-based engineering firm T-O Engineers Inc. has started more than 10 projects in the Spokane area. J.R. Norvell, office manager for T-O Engineers Spokane office, says the co

Idaho selects design team for joint higher-ed facility in Coeur d'Alene

Three colleges will share use of $9.7 million building

April 21, 2016

Mike McLean

The Idaho Department of Public Works has selected a team made up of H2A Architects PA, of Coeur d'Alene, and Integrus Architecture PS, of Spokane, to design a planned $9.7 million North Idaho Collaborative Education facility in Coeur d'Alene, says Ela