North Idaho's Silver Valley is poised for renewed prosperity in mining—and the highly paid jobs that industry brings—but the most recent proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up historic mining pollution there that

Two Spokane businessmen who invested in Sandpoint-based rehab-equipment maker Pneumex Inc. have launched a company here that hopes to create a chain of specialized rehabilitation clinics that would use Pneumex's equipment and treatment businessmen,

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories, the big Spokane-based lab known as PAML, has taken one of its biggest steps to date in its quest to become a national laboratory by entering into a joint venture in the Denver area that will serve 13 a in

Pacinian Corp., a Spokane concern that develops technology intended to make electronic-device touch screens respond to a user's touch more like the keys on a keyboard do, believes it's on the cusp of seeing its ideas put to use in mass-produced of

Though a final decision on whether to go ahead with a major expansion project at the Lucky Friday mine in North Idaho isn't expected until later this year, Coeur d'Alene-based Hecla Mining Co. already is spending millions of dollars to prepare the