The funds will be used to support a variety of educational efforts including reading, music, arts, science, vocational and GED preparation classes and college scholarship programs. The Coeur dвЂ™Alene Tribal Council considered 150 requests totaling more than $4 million. In 1992, tribal leaders agreed to return 5 percent of the tribeвЂ™s net gaming revenues to education as part of a gaming compact with the state.

The Coeur dвЂ™Alene Tribe donated $1.2 million to 52 educational programs in northern Idaho.

Rockwood Clinic PS of Spokane plans to open a primary care clinic and has started renovating a 4,800-square-foot space in a strip mall in Spokane Valley.

31 Sterling Financial Corporation had assets of $10.3В billion. It has 176 branches in those states and Washington. Sterling has around 660 area workers and more than 2,600 across the service area, which includes Idaho, Oregon andВ California. Umpqua is paying about $1.9 billion in stock for Sterling, the largest financial institution headquartered in SpokaneВ County.

Federal bank regulators have approved the merger announced last year of Umpqua Bank and Spokane-based Sterling Financial Corp.

It was launched in 1995 as Avista Laboratories before spinning off as a privately heldВ startup. ReliOn originally was a subsidiary of Avista Corp. of Spokane, which produces fuel cellВ systems.

A New York company has paid $4 million to purchase the assets of ReliOn Inc.

New SportsmanвЂ™s Warehouse stores hire an average of 50 employees.

SportsmanвЂ™s Warehouse, the Utah-based national outdoor recreation and sporting goods chain, plans to re-enter the Spokane market with a new North Side store.

The homes are likely to range in price from $200,000 to $280,000.

The combined value will be over $50 million in the cityвЂ™s River District. Rivercrossing LLC, an affiliate of Liberty Lake-based real estate development company Greenstone Corp., plans to build 282 homes in two new subdivisions.A portion of the companyвЂ™s hiring is seasonal вЂ“ usually around the holidays. The company currently has about 650 employees in downtown Spokane and 330 in Spokane Valley. will add 30 employees to its Spokane Valley location.

Nebraska-based West Corp., which hired about 200 call center employees in Spokane last year, is moving forward with a smaller wave of additional call center hiring.

Passing were the Wallace School DistrictвЂ™s $4 million levy for two years, the Kellogg School DistrictвЂ™s $5.56 million levy for two years and the Lakeland Joint School DistrictвЂ™s $4.8 million-a-year levy for two years. West Bonner School District was the one coming up short.

Three of four school district levies in northern Idaho were approved in March.

NORTHERN IDAHOД«enewah, Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai & Shoshone counties Regional Developments The following is a roundup of regional economic news compiled by the Idaho Department of Labor during April.

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