Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co.s recent disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service might disallow a $28 million tax benefit it had claimed didnt stem from an IRS probe of the big Spokane-based financial-services provider.It rather,

Hollywood Entertainment Corp., of Portland, Ore., and LOI Distributing Co., of Lakewood, Wash., plan to open a Hollywood Video store and a Dollar Store, respectively, at University City Shopping Center within the next three months, says Orville the

F.O. Berg Co., best known as a longtime Spokane sign and awning maker, has spun off a 4-year-old environmental division into a new company named Flexible Containment Products (FCP). Craig Dolsby, who owns F.O. Berg with Andy Barrett, is general

Work could start by midsummer on a 14-screen movie theater in a portion of the 74-acre Riverstone mixed-use development in Coeur dAlene. The developer of that portion of the Riverstone project, Price Legacy Corp., of San Diego, wants to have

A yellowed Sears, Roebuck & Co. sticker on the screen door of Mark Strains Spokane Valley home says the premises are monitored by electronic devices.Upon entering the basement where Strain operates his business, Strain Security & Night Vision

A Spokane company headed by developers John Miller and Bob Bonuccelli plans to develop two additional phases of Pinecroft Business Park, in the Spokane Valley, that they project will be the site of $68 million in new commercial buildings.The in

Workers at MacKay Manufacturing Inc. will have to be happy with the fancy new piece of equipment being installed this month at the Spokane Valley precision machine shop. Valued at a few hundred thousand dollars, its the only major capital MacKay

Washington State Universitys Spokane campus is expected to become vastly more important in the WSU constellation in the near future, offering many more graduate-level and research programs and leading a new push into human-health sciences, school

Unless you need the exercise, theres less reason these days to walk from your desk to the office fax machine to grab a fax or to send one off. A few clicks of your mouse might do.Desktop faxing capabilities on corporate networks are getting a

By Kim CromptonOf the Journal of BusinessImagine being able to get broadband access to stock-market quotes, breaking news, and office work systems and e-mail from your handheld or laptop computer while relaxing on a bench in Riverfront