The housing boom in Post Falls is showing no signs of slowing.Two major housing projectswith a total of a whopping 2,700 planned unitsare under way, and a third about 900-unit project is slated to go before the Planning Commission next with

Isothermal Systems Research Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of cooling technologies for electronics, has opened branch offices in both Seattle and Wichita, Kansas, and has formed a strategic partnership with Seattle-based Callison Architecture a

With diesel prices above $3 a gallon and some Inland Northwest farmers having difficulty finding enough fuel to keep their machinery operating, four Spokane and Whitman county agricultural cooperatives are weighing development of a biodiesel plant

Diabetics, who typically also suffer weight problems, now can lower their blood sugar levels to normal and lose weight in a slow, steady manner thanks to an injectable drug recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, say Spokane who

In 1959, Dr. Ralph Berg and a team of other surgeons successfully performed the first open-heart surgery at Sacred Heart Medical Center, making Spokane only the seventh open-heart surgery center in the country and the first outside a major the that

With whats being called the biggest change in U.S. bankruptcy law in the last 25 years coming Oct. 17, several bankruptcy attorneys here say they dont understand the new law well enough yet to be able to predict how it will impact them or their

Three small Spokane companies have raised about $400,000 in start-up capital and have launched Safe Harbor Publishing LLC, to produce and market a video and travel kit designed to keep travelers safe in the U.S. and abroad.Additionally, more in

Great Floors LLC, a Coeur dAlene-based flooring chain with 15 retail stores and three distribution centers, has started work on a 48,000-square-foot retail outlet just west of the Spokane Valley Mall, which will be its third Spokane-area new is a

Two unnamed Oregon investors are in the process of selling their interest in a proposed, about 250-acre mixed-use development project in Post Falls to Tullamore Properties LLC, which is managed by Vision First LLC, of Eagle, Idaho.Separately, a

With just a click of his mouse, Dana Bressler starts up a 2,600-foot-long piece of mobile mining equipment. With another click he puts in motion a device that squeezes toothpaste from a tube.The machines arent real yet, just animated images a