Coeur dAlene Mines Corp. says it has acquired exploration and mining rights to a large area adjacent to a property in Bolivia where its evaluating building a silver mine.The Coeur dAlene-based company announced in its second-quarter report

Potlatch Corp., which has posted net losses for five successive quarters, has made significant gains in curbing its costs, a securities analyst says.Even though the Spokane forest-products company posted a loss of 35 cents a share for the second

Business leaders here are working to set up a new economic-development campaign to succeed the $5 million, five-year Focus 21 effort, which has entered its final year.JoAnn Ficca, who served for a year as Focus 21s president and now is working

Taxable retail sales in Spokane County rose a healthy 6.7 percent last year to $5.6 billion, outpacing gains in 1999, when they rose 6.3 percent to $5.2 billion.Within the city of Spokane, taxable sales climbed 6.1 percent last year to $3.2 also

Apollo College, of Phoenix, is seeking a much larger location for its campus here, which is growing rapidly.Deanna Baker, director of the campus, says the vocational-technical school now has 274 students on campus here, up from just 77 last when

The Spokane Area Economic Development Council is about to increase both its economic-development role and its connections to the public.As of Jan. 1, the organization, which has been tightly focused for years on recruiting new businesses, will a

Minera Andes Inc., a small Spokane mining exploration company, says its joint-venture partner in an Argentinian gold and silver prospect will exercise its option to proceed with extensive exploration of the property.Such work is done as a mining

The Spokane-area economy has been adding jobs at a much faster pace so far this year than it did during 1999.Through the first half of the year, an average of nearly 4,000 more people were employed here than in the year-earlier months, according

New York investment bankers are telling Avista Corp. that a fund-raising to launch business options at its fast-growing subsidiaries would bring in $200 million less if Avista keeps the subsidiaries headquarters here instead of moving them out of

A recent surge in the price of gold has renewed Inland Northwest mining companies interest in digging the yellow metal out of the ground.Gold, which had fallen as low as $252.85 per troy ounce on the London gold exchange as recently as Aug. as