Weekly business magazine Inc. has named 11 companies headquartered in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area to its list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S.-including some that are relatively unknown.

While companies are grappling with the effects of the current U.S.-China trade disputes-and many are concerned about automation and its effect on the workforce-most companies are feeling optimistic about the future, according to Umpqua Bank's

A laptop featuring Rohinni technology could be waiting under the tree this Christmas. That's what Matthew Gerber, CEO of Coeur d'Alene-based tech engineering company Rohinni LLC, says the company's new joint venture Luumii hopes to accomplish

More fiber-optic network activity has begun to crop up in Coeur d'Alene and Spokane. TDS Metrocom, a Madison, Wisconsin-based telecommunications company, is constructing a new fiber optic network in Coeur d'Alene, with the intention of offering

Mention The Great PNW bears to the majority of Spokanites, and one image immediately comes clearly to mind. That animated image, to innocent eyes, looks like one grown bear on his back haunches standing behind another that's resting on all four paws.

Sara Jane Ruggles, life enrichment director at North Star Assisted Living, in Coeur d'Alene, says staff members became misty-eyed as they watched residents participate in their first music therapy session.

Cheney's planning commission has voted unanimously to recommend approval of rezoning of almost 5 acres of land near the southeast corner of Sixth Street and Simpson Parkway that would pave the way for construction of new Cheney Care Community duplexes.