The Sandpoint business community, through that city's urban renewal agency, has brought in a highly touted consultant to breathe life into a revitalization plan developed nearly a decade ago.The consultant, Mark Rivers, who owns Boise-based real

A Spokane homebuilder-turned real estate investor says he's heading up a group that has offered to buy 11 stories in the 13-story Ridpath Hotel tower and most of an adjacent building. The group envisions buying other parts of the complex, which has

Some banks and credit unions in the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene area say they have projects for new or improved facilities planned or in the works in anticipation of growth, following a two-year lull in such activity.Community 1st Bank, of Post and

After two failed efforts to revive the Jensen-Byrd building in the University District east of downtown through a public-private partnership, Washington State University, which owns the century-old structure, has decided to put it up for university

The title "of counsel" can be attached to attorneys under a number of different circumstances, but what they all have in common is a continuing, focused relationship with their respective firms, lawyers here say.Ted Stiles, who is an attorney of

A medical team at the Kootenai Cancer Center, in Post Falls, now is treating certain brain tumors with high-dose radiation using a $4 million linear accelerator that's specially equipped to perform what's called stereotactic radiosurgery.The of