Local jobless rate 4.7 percent

POST FALLS — Kootenai County's unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in March, according to a report released this morning by the Idaho Department of Labor.

The number is down from 4.8 percent in February and 6.2 percent in March 2014.

Coeur d'Alene's rate is 5.3 percent and Post Falls' 4.3 percent.

Idaho's jobless rate is 3.8 percent, while the nation's is at 5.5 percent.