Enrollment in real estate classes at Inland Northwest colleges is on the rise as enrollees seek qualification to reach for their share of an increasingly lucrative real estate pie.Classes offered by North Idaho College at its Work Force Center,

The second phase of a $6 million reconstruction of Government Way, one of Coeur dAlenes main north-south arterials, began recently and is slated to be completed in August, says Dick Suchocki, the citys engineering project manager.When the

About $24 million worth of subcontracting work on the big Spokane Convention Center expansion project has been awarded, with the bulk of the contracts going to Spokane-area concerns.The Spokane Public Facilities District and Hoffman-Bouten, a a

84 Lumber Co., an Eighty Four, Pa.-based building materials chain, plans to open a large manufacturing and wholesale operation in Post Falls this summer to serve Inland Northwest contractors, says company spokeswoman Robyn Hall.The project is a

Three Coeur dAlene developers plan to build a seven-story condominium-office building in the heart of downtown Coeur dAlene later this year.Construction of the 40,000-square-foot structure at 609 Sherman Ave., just northeast of the former a

The location of a planned new federal courthouse in Coeur dAlene has been a matter of keen interest in the community, and developers were scheduled to give the U.S. General Services Administration some proposed sites earlier this were to have to

BAs much as $40 million in contract work to upgrade Spokanes waste-water treatment plant will be filtering through the economy here later this year, with much of the work to be awarded in the fall. Between about $30 million and $33 million be

Construction of luxury vacation homes and second residences near lakes in Kootenai County has increased sharply and buyers from across the country are getting in on the action. Builders say the high-end second-home market started to take off no

Demand for temporary workers is surging, especially in manufacturing, providing a sign that the Inland Northwests economy is improving, temporary-help agencies here say.Demand for employees has grown strongly in several sectors since the of a

About four months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, C.J. Hays bought a large inventory of lapel pins from a friend who had given up on selling them.Hays believed he could do better than his friend by using the Internet to reach thousands of the