POST FALLSSpokane developer Harry Greens vision for the former Louisiana-Pacific Corp. mill site here involves nothing less than forging a new city center, complete with a town square, a relocated City Hall, and a shoreline park.At a public

Parrott Mechanical Inc., a longtime North Idaho heating, plumbing, and electrical contractor that once employed more than 400 people companywide, has closed its Coeur dAlene office and laid off most of its employees. A Boise-based heating and

Doctors offices, pharmacies, hospitals, health insurersin short, the entire health-care industryhave exactly one year to prepare for the first wave of new federal regulations covering the handling of medical records.Its not a task Many a

In the latest in a string of legal actions filed over Ice World USA, a Liberty Lake ice-skating rink, three of the companys five owners allege that the other two owners are trying to cut them out of the business at the same time theyre trying 1

ST. MARIES, IdahoHere a box of coyote jaws, there a stack of buffalo ankle bones, upstairs a rack of wolverine pelts, and on the shelf, a row of deer and elk antlers. Wal-Mart, it aint.Actually, it is, in a way; Eidnes Furs Inc. is the

Retool your skills, retrain for a new careerin a fat economy, these are the kinds of slogans you see on matchbook covers and bus-stop benches, and its advice thats widely ignored.Why retrain when jobs are easy to come by? With the and

Sharp Shooting Indoor Range & Gun Shop Inc., of Spokane, faces foreclosure by a Texas company after defaulting on a loan that originally was guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration. According to a foreclosure action filed in Court

Tom Addis, who owns two auto dealerships in Coeur dAlene, is buying Jackson Motors Inc., a longtime Ford dealership in Newport, Wash., and will move that dealership to a new location there. Addis company, Tom Addis Automotive Group, expects

Coeur dAlene Mines Corp. is fighting back against a flagging metals market by spinning off its environmental and governmental relations operation into a subsidiary that will do consulting work for the Coeur dAlene-based mining company, its and

A group that includes Spokane developer Harry Greens company has bought the former Louisiana-Pacific Corp. mill site in Post Falls and plans a mixed-use project there called the Point at Post Falls.The group, Point at Post Falls LLC, closed on