A Canadian manufacturer of energy-saving lighting-system regulators and its Spokane-based distributor plan in August to open a joint office in the University of Idaho Research Park, in Post Falls.The Canadian company, Questal Technologies Inc.,

Coeur dAlene School District No. 271 is planning an $11 million remodel and expansion of Coeur dAlene High School.Construction bids for the project are scheduled to be opened today, Feb. 8.If the bids are acceptable and a contract is to 1

COEUR DALENEThe name Coeur dAlene can be difficult for first-timers to pronounce, and its meaning, heart of the awl, is obscure and kind of chilling. Some say it makes for pretty nice jewelry, though. Inspired by the Coeur and a

Schweitzer Mountain Resort is embarking on an aggressive development program that includes marketing some of its 7,000 acres of property to other developers; increasing air-travel access to Sandpoint; and engaging in joint marketing efforts with to

Shorewood Homes Inc., of Hayden Lake, Idaho, is asking the nearby city of Hayden to annex 115 acres of undeveloped property upon which it wants to build a $40 million residential subdivision.The construction and development company plans to 310

A Tucson, Ariz., developer has abandoned plans to create a 419-lot residential subdivision near Rathdrum, saying Kootenai Countys lack of a regional sewer plan made his project unworkable.The developer, Bing Sherwood, of Tucson-based Finger to

The Inland Northwest Blood Center has agreed to buy property north of the Spokane River near downtown, the first step in an $8 million project to give the organization a larger, more modern headquarters.The blood center could begin construction

Shortages are causing price hikes up and down the West Coastand were not talking about electrical power.Because of changes in the Christmas tree-growing business a decade or more ago, the supply of Christmas trees has shrunk. Following that

Americans, we often hear, are not getting less fat, but theyre certainly getting less for fat than they used to, and thats creating problems for restaurateurs here.The two companies that pick up and recycle restaurant grease in the Inland a

Spokane and Coeur dAlene are almost certainly destined to become a combined metropolitan statistical area in the eyes of everyone from the federal government to national retailers, says a report published in August by the U.S. Census would be a a