For the second time in three years, the Washington state Department of Financial Institutions has launched securities-related disciplinary proceedings against Spokane-based direct-mail publishing company Northwest Best Direct Inc. and its owners,

A hardware retailer here that opened an Ace Hardware store on the South Hill in 2002 plans to open its second Spokane-area store.The company, Jant Group II Inc., has leased a 17,500-square-foot former Rite Aid Corp. store building at the corner

MatriCal Inc., the Spokane-based maker of devices used in pharmaceutical research, says it has reached an agreement with a leading neuroscience company to supply equipment for that companys drug-development operations.MatriCal sold one of its

Cascade Furniture Manufacturing has moved to Spokane Valley from Hayden, Idaho, bringing 15 jobs with it, says Henry Sanchez, the companys president and owner.The company, which makes furniture for hotels, schools, and other institutional has

COEUR DALENEJoe Morris was working in his office at Kootenai Medical Center here in September when he was summoned to one of the hospitals operating rooms. There, Morris witnessed the first open-heart surgery ever performed in North Idaho. in

Harlan Douglass, one of Spokane Countys largest developers, land owners, and taxpayers, and his wife, Maxine, are appealing an Internal Revenue Service order to pay $931,000 in back federal income taxes.The couple have filed a petition in Tax

Five Mile Prairie is like a rural island in an urban sea.Though just a short drive from Spokanes heavily commercial North Division Y, the prairielocated atop a large bluff that rises several hundred feet above surrounding city dotted it

With Washington states minimum wage having jumped 15 cents to $7.16 an hour on Jan. 1, restaurant owners here say their plates now are so full of labor costs that theres little room for profits. Washingtons minimum-wage law, which is to a

Mark Gantar made news recently when he moved his Spokane Valley manufacturing company, All Seasons Apparel Inc., to Post Falls. Idahos lower minimum wage was one factor in the move, Gantar says, but an equally important motivation was to All

Willow Wind Organic Farms Inc., of Spokane, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.The company listed assets in the range of $1 million to $10 million, and debts in that same range on its filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court here. Steve of a