Despite the economic challenges faced during the recession in 2009, a survey of whitewater rafting outfitters offering vacations on Idaho's Middle Fork of the Salmon River points to a modest upturn in business in 2010. Middle Fork outfitters are

Contractors Northwest Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, is erecting 18 airplane hangars in a "nested," or clustered, facility at the Coeur d'Alene Airport, at a project cost of about $500,000.Foreman Properties LLC, of Hayden Lake, Idaho, is developing to

Jennings Northwest LLC, a Spokane-area subsidiary of Jennings Cos., based in Honolulu, Hawaii, has won a $1.8 million Spokane County contract to install sewer lines in a neighborhood just north of Wandermere Golf Course.Scott Jennings, owner of

The city of Spokane has won a $200,000 grant from the Washington state Department of Ecology to plan the cleanup of a 28-acre parcel it owns near the University District.The city's water department administrative offices are located on the site,

T. LaRiviere Equipment & Excavation Inc., of Athol, Idaho, has won a $2.5 million Spokane County contract to install sewer line in Spokane Valley that eventually will serve about 250 homes there.The project will include excavating the roadways a

Spokane and Post Falls contractors are the low bidders for two separate Washington state Department of Transportation projects worth a combined about $2.6 million and involving U.S. 195 south of Pullman, Wash., and U.S. 395 north of Spokane. Poe

Zome Design LLC, an apparel screen-printing and embroidery company, has leased 2,500 square feet of space at 1821 W. Fifth Avenue, and plans to move there from smaller quarters at 6714 N. Pittsburg. Erik Nelson and Cody George, both of Kiemle & the