Phones Plus Inc., a Coeur dAlene-based vendor of voice and data communications systems, has spun off much of its business-sales operation to B&C Telephone Inc., of Spokane, so it can focus more on retail sales of mobile phones and service. of the

Wind Wireless Inc., of Spokane, recently introduced a high-speed, wireless Internet service that the company says covers 220 square miles of the Spokane metropolitan area.Wind Wireless, which is located at 715 E. Sprague, says its or Wi-Fi, is

A Texas company wants to open a new hospital herewithin St. Lukes Rehabilitation Institutean idea thats endorsed by Spokanes other hospitals as a way to take some of the financial pressure off of them and to add a treatment option thats

Coeur dAlene, one of the fastest-growing cities in Idaho, is set to grow some more. The city recently annexed two big chunks of property totaling more than 400 acres and is looking at annexing a third, 109-acre piece. Residential developments

ROCKFORD BAY, IdahoWhat do you know heaven does have a golf course, says the come-on line for Black Rock, the swanky golf-and-housing development here. That may be so, but for some, playing the private 18-hole Black Rock course could to

Four years after Medinex Systems Inc. went public in a splashy $21 million stock offering, separate offers have been made through U.S. Bankruptcy Court auctions to buy certain assets and its corporate shell for tiny fractions of that sum. The a

Horizon Credit Union has bounced backand then somefrom a difficult episode three years ago in which the Spokane Valley-based institutions board fired its president, who then sued Horizon. The 13-branch credit union used the messy to make

COEUR DALENEMike Norris makes music with a DeWalt scroll saw.In his tiny workshop in the forest east of here, Norris carefully guides pieces of 5/8-inch hardwood into the saws dancing blade, creating delicate patterns that belie the from

Hold onto your hardhats, a residential building boom is on. The number of residential building permits issued in Spokane and Kootenai counties in the first 18 weeks of the year shot up 49 percentto 1,334 dwelling unitscompared with the a

Innovation and risk-taking are qualities that mark a successful entrepreneur. Theyre also qualities that are important to the growth of the economy, representatives of Gonzaga University and Eastern Washington University say. Accordingly, in