Wes Colley estimates that AmericanWest Bancorp.s assets will reach $1 billion this year, and its geographic reach now includes 42 branches in more than 30 cities in Eastern Washington and North Idaho. Within three years, Colley, who is and of

Question: What can Ironman athletes do besides swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, and run 26.2 miles, all in a single day? Answer: spend money.The Ironman triathlon competition thats to be held in Coeur dAlene June 29 is expected to pump

COEUR DALENELanny Ream says rockhounds are a dying breedliterally. Hunting and collecting rocks and minerals was really a big thing after World War II because thats the first time people had money and time, he says. Our parents or

Another round of U.S. military base closures is loomingone perhaps as big as the previous four rounds combinedand with it Fairchild Air Force Base will become part of a high-stakes poker game.Win, and the base probably would grow, bringing

As a retailer, Sandpoint-based Coldwater Creek Inc. was built on catalog sales of its womens apparel and gift items, with Internet sales added when that electronic medium exploded on the scene. Now, the North Idaho company is looking to its a

Inland Northwest mining companies say theyre hitting rich veins of opportunity at their Central and South American mine properties.Hecla Mining Co., of Coeur dAlene, estimates it could have four additional areas under production or in and a

Work could start by midsummer on a 14-screen movie theater in a portion of the 74-acre Riverstone mixed-use development in Coeur dAlene. The developer of that portion of the Riverstone project, Price Legacy Corp., of San Diego, wants to have

Washington State Universitys Spokane campus is expected to become vastly more important in the WSU constellation in the near future, offering many more graduate-level and research programs and leading a new push into human-health sciences, school

Washington state let its economic-development programs slide when times were fat in the Puget Sound area, and the states economy is suffering today as a result, contends Scott Morris, president of Avista Utilities here. Morris, one of two on

Joe Gilenes ties to Cincinnati were strong: He was born and raised there, married another Ohio native, and spent 17 years working at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, eventually becoming a member of the hospitals senior-management