Spokane-area high-tech entrepreneur Bernard Daines has launched a company here that is breathing life into an underutilized Liberty Lake building as a broadband Internet paradise.The new company, Liberty Lake Internet Exchange LLC, or LLIX for

A lot of things have broken right for Potlatch Corp., helping the Spokane-based forest-products company in its successful quest to return to profitability this year, Chairman and CEO L. Pendleton Siegel told securities analysts earlier this prices

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians, continuing to add to its property holdings on the West Plains, has bought for future development another 111 acres near its 3-year-old Northern Quest Casino.The parcel extends south from the casino, located at 100

A company formed by the owners of Spokane Valley-based Lydig Construction Inc. plans to develop a $2.8 million structure in the Valley that will be the future home of ITT Technical Institutes Spokane branch.The company, East Indiana College a

WhiteRunkle Associates is in the early stages of implementing an employee stock ownership program (ESOP), says Jack White, president of the Spokane advertising agency.Separately, WhiteRunkle Interactive, a division of the firm, has landed a to

You might say Kale Bassler and Terrie Wharton have the St. Nick knack.The good friends discovered their niche after years of local craft shows at which they peddled reindeer made of clothes pins and other Christmas-themed baubles they had by in

Itronix Corp., the Spokane-based maker of rugged wireless computers, plans early next year to begin looking for a new location into which it can consolidate its operations here. Were seeing pressure on our current space, says CEO Tom We

Five years ago, Rick OConnors two SuperColor 1-Hour Photo shops were among at least 17 such outlets operated by independent photo finishers here. OConnor offered only a few digital services then, such as scanning images and burning them onto

Jim Schoenleber, a former cop who built Argus Services Inc. here into a regional security-guard powerhouse with more than 1,000 employees and annual revenues topping $20 million, has been forced by health problems to dismantle the says he has and a

Tax-law changes for 2003 were intended to keep cash in individuals pockets so they would pump money into the economy, and the law definitely will accomplish the former. Some of the changes were meant to give businesses more to spend as well.A