As fuel prices continue to climb across the U.S., trucking and delivery companies here are shifting the load of additional expense onto their customers through fuel surcharges to help offset their costs.The rising fuel prices are pinching and a

Hillyard business leaders and the city of Spokane are working together on an economic-development strategy to transform the underutilized former railroad community into a more vibrant commercial and residential center.The city has budgeted for

More than $40 million in subcontract work for the big Spokane Convention Center expansion project will be coming down the pike in the nearing months, with much of it to be awarded this summer. The Spokane Public Facilities District and a joint

The owners of PC Open Inc., a fast-growing electronics equipment manufacturer here, have formed an affiliated company to make computer servers and software for next-generation digital video recording. The new company, Securgen LLC, has begun of

Travel Management Inc., a Post Falls travel agency and tour operator, says its revenues now are 30 percent higher than they were before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that crippled the travel industry.The company projects $16 million in

Dellen Wood Products Inc., a 43-year-old Spokane maker of fireplace logs, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.Documents that the company has filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court here list its total assets at about $1.1 million and its at

A company headed by Spokane developer John Stone has doubled the size of the big, mixed-used Riverstone development in Coeur dAlene, by agreeing to buy a neighboring, massive gravel quarry along the Spokane River from Central Pre-Mix Concrete of

State Farm Insurance Co., of Bloomington, Ill., is consolidating its Spokane-area and Coeur dAlene automobile and homeowners insurance claims offices by moving them to a building at the Iron Bridge Corporate Campus here.State Farm will 60 a

Two developers, one from Coeur dAlene and the other from Santa Barbara, Calif., plan to transform a trailer park and some mostly vacant land just north of Interstate 90 in Coeur dAlene into a big commercial development that would include a a of

The Spokane County Medical Society has been discussing with the Seattle-based University of Washington School of Medicine ways in which the school could expand education opportunities here.Dr. Don Cubberley, the societys president, says the a