Sandpoint's diverse and growing employment base is helping offset last year's loss of major employer Coldwater Creek, several business representatives and observers there say. Companies representing software, aerospace, biomedical, and manufacturing

Oregon-based Willamette Valley Bank plans to move its Coeur d'Alene home-loan center by summer into a new building on Sherman Avenue at the east edge of downtown, says Steve Novotny, the bank's Coeur d'Alene sales manager and one of its loan officer

Construction is proceeding at a quick pace on a $2.1 medical office building at the Syringa Medical Campus, in Post Falls. Coeur d'Alene-based Young Construction Group of Idaho Inc. is the contractor on the project at the northeast corner of Mullan Aven

Brandon LaBreck, owner of LaBreck Stainless Works LLC, says his biggest concern for the company is keeping up with demand as he looks to expand. The three-year-old Hayden company's mainstay is manufacturing and installing sanitary stainless steel tanks

Regional tourism professionals will gather in Coeur d'Alene next month to collect and share ideas on how to further strengthen one of North Idaho's top industries, says Christina Petit, director of sales and marketing at the Best Western Plus Coeur dâ

Northwest Specialty Hospital, in Post Falls, is looking to capitalize on Canada's growing medical tourist market by bundling some of its surgical procedures with a stay at the Coeur d'Alene Resort.

Kootenai County is looking to continue to build on gains it has achieved in active construction projects since the low point of the Great Recession. Projects valued at more than $210 million currently are under construction, permitted, or planned. That d