STCU gets new location

Business Bits

Completely redesigned, remodeled offices will greet about seven employees of STCU (Spokane Teachers Credit Union) when they occupy their new location on the main floor of the former Bank of America building at 401 E. Front Ave. downtown.

Portion control and overeating

Whether you eat junk food, grains, sugar or healthy organic foods, one fact about eating does not change. How much we eat is something we can all address and manage much more effectively.

Private label good or bad?

I typically write my column on the Saturday prior to its printing on Wednesday. We are heartbroken at the scenes playing out across Napa and Sonoma counties. We have received requests for information from many of you regarding the damage to wineries and vineyards. The information coming out of “the valleys” is at best sketchy right now. We will have further updates next week. Please keep all of our friends and wine industry colleagues in your thoughts and prayers.

Flathead County Sheriff

More than $1,300 in damage was done to construction equipment in a vacant lot off the road to the Hungry Horse Dam. A window on a dump truck was smashed, the fuel cap to an excavator went missing, and another piece of equipment was spray-painted. Flathead County Sheriff's deputies are investigating.

Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer

Airport chaplains let fliers connect with heavens

ATLANTA - The Rev. Frank Colladay Jr. stood at the end of the gate waiting. On the arriving plane was a passenger whose husband had just died of a heart attack on another flight. Her name was Linda Gilbert. The two had never met before.

Vacation 101: planning your trip online

Once solely the job of travel agents, vacation planning has never been easier for the casual traveler. With the advent of high-speed

Midnight grocery runs capture desperation

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Once a month, just after midnight, the beeping checkout scanners at a Walmart just off Interstate 95 come alive in a chorus of financial desperation.

The Latest: Turkey has 84 new deaths amid partial lockdowns

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NIA — Women of Impact in their words: How to market to women who shop

(It’s OK. I like to shop too!)

The North Idaho Alliance, AKA NIA, wants you to know it’s OK to admit you like to shop.

Circle K opens at Stateline

A Circle K convenience store is now at 70 N. Beck Road at Stateline.

Anthony's coming to Riverstone

Business Bits

This week the focus is on Riverstone and downtown Coeur d'Alene as previously vacant locations gain tenants.

Family recipe inspires organic skin care business

The shop is lined with little jars and bottles, skin care, makeup and rollerball scents, among many more products.

Retail sales jump as Americans defy inflation and rate hikes

Some of last month's retail sales gain probably reflected unusually warm weather

Voit, Torres homer as Yankees beat Rays 5-1 to force Game 5

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The New York Yankees didn't flinch under the pressure of an elimination game and got the AL Division Series against Tampa Bay into the hands of ace Gerrit Cole for the decisive Game 5.

Voit, Torres homer as Yankees beat Rays 5-1 to force Game 5

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The New York Yankees didn't flinch under the pressure of an elimination game and got the AL Division Series against Tampa Bay into the hands of ace Gerrit Cole for the decisive Game 5.

Nellie Lakey, 87

Longtime Kalispell resident Nellie Lakey, 87, died peacefully Tuesday, March 27, 2007, in Kalispell, surrounded by loved ones. She was born May 18, 1919, in Inverness, to Oscar arid Emma (Lambott) Adams.

Whitefish Gallery Nights returns Aug. 2

Whitefish’s downtown art galleries will offer artist receptions and live music Aug. 2.

No fatalities in I-5 bridge collapse

Span crossed Skagit River north of Seattle

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. - An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping several vehicles into the water as authorities investigated the cause of the collapse that cut off the state's main north-south thruway and sent three people to the hospital.

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Stress, rumors, even violence: Virus fear goes viral

TOKYO (AP) — You might have heard that the fear of a new virus from China is spreading faster than the actual virus.