While most businesspeople strive to be mindful of the future, Dennis Wright wants just the opposite. You even could say the Spokane entrepreneur was born quite a few years too late.Wright owns Audio Adventure, a year-old Spokane company that in

Two researchers at Washington State University have developed a compound that they believe could help patients who suffer from early-stage Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia.Jay Wright, a psychologist, and Joe Harding, a with the

Avista Corp. could face a $60 million tab to modify its Cabinet Gorge dam on Idahos Clark Fork River to protect fish there.The money would be spent over a long periodthrough 2020and part of the work ultimately might prove to be says Bob a

Spokane-based Rosauers Supermarkets Inc. is planning a multimillion-dollar remodeling push that will involve updating all eight of its stores here during the next four years.Rosauers President and CEO Jeffry Philipps says the sweeping is part a

Developers here increasingly are tapping Spokanes trove of historic buildings for construction and rehabilitation projects ranging from offices to residential lofts to hotels. Like looking after an eccentric old aunt, however, shepherding a

A citizens group here says it will need to win support of the business community as it seeks to spark development of a proposed park on a largely undeveloped urban stretch of the Spokane River west of Riverfront Park.The group, Friends of the &

Stinson Manufacturing Co., which makes scaffolding planks, decks, and ladder jacks used to form stable above-ground work platforms, has found that keeping its balance in a turbulent economy isnt easy.The small Spokane business posted its in

The Liberty Lake operation of Getronics, the big Amsterdam-based information-technology conglomerate, shows few signs of rebounding much from the work-force losses it has suffered in recent years. That doesnt mean, though, that the roughly is has

The United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 44, of Spokane, has bought two 20,000-square-foot buildings in East Spokane for $1.75 million and plans to move its operations to one of those buildings this summer.Separately, Building

Bio-OriGyn LLC, of Spokane, has received a U.S. patent for its Pre-Seed vaginal lubricant, the companys first consumer product for human infertility. The patent is Bio-OriGyns eighth, but its first U.S. patent for Pre-Seed, says company CEO