Inland Northwest ski resort operators say the early start to ski season last year has skiers eager to hit the slopes again, despite forecasts that an El Niño weather pattern is bringing a warmer and wetter winter season.

Construction started this month on a new $2 million, 7,000-square-foot North Idaho Eye Institute PA building, at 8378 N. Government Way, in Hayden, says Brittany Garnett, office administrator for Meridian Construction & Development, of Spokane Valley, the

Two young Inland Northwest businesses. Tidy's beautiful bins LLC and Eco-Wash Solutions Northwest have launched garbage can cleaning services.

Dr. Adam Duke contends that women who have endometriosis largely have been failed by the medical community.

Construction is underway in north Coeur d'Alene on a new $3.3 million commercial office building that will be owned and occupied by Keller Williams Coeur d'Alene, says Dennis Ranch, the agency's operating principal.

Post Falls-based residential and commercial electric service and repair company Mainstream Electric Inc. has been on a growth streak the last three years and doesn't plan to slow down anytime soon, says co-owner and company President Elaine Damschen.

Marimn Health, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's health care organization, plans to construct a new $15.8 million youth and family recreation center on tribal reservation land off of U.S. 95, near Worley, Idaho