North Idaho

Fatbeam develops new cloud service

Cloudbeam is one step in effort to diversify company's product mix

August 27, 2020

Fatbeam LLC, a Coeur d'Alene-based fiber optics company, has developed a new product that allows its customers to connect securely to cloud services providers. Fatbeam builds high-capacity fiber optic networks and leases connectivity through what

Longtime Cd'A marketing exec launches The Sip Shack

Company to cater to weddings, other special events

August 13, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Motivated by a pandemic-inspired idea, Coeur d'Alene entrepreneur Eden Richey Irgens is on the verge of launching her mobile bar and wine-serving concept, The Sip Shack.

Tamarack Aerospace establishes new center in UK

Manufacturer also adds hangar, office at Sandpoint

August 13, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Sandpoint, Idaho-based Tamarack Aerospace Group Inc. is stretching its wings with the establishment of a new installation center in the United Kingdom. The new center will be located within Jet Maintenance International's new 18,000-square-foot

Q&A with The Black Lens founder Sandra Williams

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August 13, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Five years ago, Sandra Williams launched The Black Lens newspaper as an experiment. Since then, the publication has become integral to Spokane's Black community and its allies.

Owsley set to launch reflections Aesthetic Spa in Post Falls

Restaurants & Retai

July 30, 2020

Kevin Blocker

A 30-year veteran of plastic surgery, Post Falls, Idaho-based Dr. Mark Owsley says he's opening an aesthetics spa to operate in conjunction with his practice.

Around Town

Real Estate Transactions and Other Business Moves in the Inland Northwest

July 30, 2020

Staff Report

Spokane-based Kancor LLC has purchased the 1.5-acre Bowdish RV Storage facility at 503 N. Bowdish Road as an investment. Rob Kannapien, of Coldwell Banker Commercial Schneidmiller Realty, and John Leland, of Re/Max Inland Empire, handled the transaction.

Inland Northwest executive pay inches upward

Modest increase follows fluctuations in previous two years

July 30, 2020

Linn Parish

Pre-pandemic executive pay increased by just 1% for executives at Inland Northwest-based publicly traded companies in 2019, according to a Journal of Business analysis.

StanCraft to add third hangar at its Cd'A jet center

$7.5M steel structure to be completed next year

July 16, 2020

Virginia Thomas

StanCraft Jet Center is expanding its ongoing development plans in North Idaho with the addition of a 57,200-square-foot hangar at Coeur d'Alene Airport-Pappy Boyington Field. Construction on the StanCraft Jet Center began last year. As previously

Hecla Mining touts production, new investor

Mining company expects to repay debt by year-end

July 16, 2020

Virginia Thomas

All five of Hecla Mining Co's mines are in operation, producing about 3.4 million ounces of silver and almost 60,000 ounces of gold in the second quarter, the Coeur d'Alene-based mining concern reported earlier this month. Also, a Canadian company

Inland Northwest Spine adds new robotic microscope

Modus V said to ease surgeries, allow student viewing of operations

July 2, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Inland Northwest Spine & Neurosurgery PLLC, of Coeur d'Alene, has a new piece of operating room equipment that orthopedic surgeon Dr. Douglas Blaty says is a vast improvement over previous tools. The Modus V digital microscope, produced by