Post Falls-based Medinex Systems Inc. has spent nearly all of the $21 million it raised two years ago in an initial public offering, has posted a $30 million net loss for 2000, and has trimmed roughly 80 percent of the about 180 employees it had on

Stoneridge Golf Course, just north of Spirit Lake, Idaho, closed last weekend for a yearlong, $2.5 million renovation.The project includes rebuilding all of the greens on the 18-hole golf course, adding new tee boxes and rebuilding older tee a a

Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. has landed a nearly $16 million contract to build Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.s planned locomotive refueling station on North Idahos Rathdrum Prairie.Lydig expects to begin construction of at

The Coeur dAlene Tribe is considering asking Idaho voters to decide the fate of its casino operations via a statewide ballot initiative.That comes in the wake of the Idaho Senates defeat last week of a bill that would have ratified a new the

Half of the people who bought homes in Spokane and Kootenai counties last year had lived in the area less than two years, and about a quarter of those people moved here to be near their families, not for job-related reasons.Furthermore, while to

Welch Comer & Associates Inc., a consulting civil engineering company based in Coeur dAlene, is opening a 12-person office in Liberty Lake. For its new office, the company will lease about 2,000 square feet of space in a new building at 2310

Knife River Corp., a Bismark, N.D.-based construction materials conglomerate, says it plans to build two ready-mix concrete plants in the Spokane and Coeur dAlene areas that together will employ up to 50 people.The plants should open by July a

POST FALLSA Coeur dAlene-based partnership wants to leverage the draw of the soon-to-be-built Wal-Mart store here by embarking on two commercial developments near the stores site that would have a combined value of $24 million. Real estate a

Schweitzer Mountain Resort, located near Sandpoint, is drawing up plans to install a second high-speed, six-person chairlift on the ski hill this summer, although it wont decide whether to do so until April. The proposed $3.2 million project a

A Spokane developer has agreed to buy the former Louisiana-Pacific Corp. mill site in Post Falls for $1.7 million, the real estate broker who is handling the planned transaction says.The Hayden Lake-based broker, Bill Robinette, of Coeur Banker