Avista Corp. just cant catch a break with its joint-venture Coyote Springs 2 power plant, which has been under construction at Boardman, Ore., since 2000. Last May, a transformer at the plant caught fire, delaying the project by several the

The Dreifus family, which owns and operates Sylvan Furniture Co., has agreed to sell five buildings it owns on the west 200 block between Riverside and Sprague avenues downtown. Sylvan Furniture had notified customers in a recent letter that to

Dix Corp., a longtime Spokane contractor, has started work on a $17 million portion of a fish-bypass project at Rocky Reach Dam, which is on the Columbia River near Wenatchee, Wash.The company also is under way on a $345,000 gantry-crane at in

For the third straight year, a record number of bankruptcy petitions were filed in Eastern Washington in 2002. The trend, experts say, is expected to continue this year.Last year, businesses and consumers filed 10,154 petitions seeking from in

SANDPOINT, IdahoIt all started in 1982 when Don and Kim Cox were sitting around, bored, on a frigid winter day. In a moment of insanity er, inspiration the Sandpoint couple, both scuba-diving enthusiasts, decided to don their gear and

Many Spokane-area businesses are seeing their health-plan costs rise this year by at least the same double-digit percentage rate as last year and in some cases are being hit with even larger hikes. Representatives of several of the Inland plans

Before larger institutions vacuumed up Seafirst Bank and Rainier National Bank in the frenzied industry consolidation several years ago, the two banks commanded two-thirds of the lucrative mid- to upper-market commercial-banking business in and as

The additional hires will equate to roughly a 10 percent staffing increase here for Honeywell, whichwith the equivalent of about 600 full-time employees at two locationsis one of Spokane Countys largest manufacturers. The anticipated hires a

Patients and visitors at Sacred Heart Medical Centers planned new Childrens Hospital will look to animal-themed signs to guide them through the facility after it opens.The signage in the new facility will include fish that will swim around