Steve Strange says he was thrilled after buying a rare 1964-1/2 Mustang convertible in 1968 while he was a junior in high school. It wasnt until two years later, though, when he traded that car in on a hot new 1970 Mach 1 Mustang, that his into a

Buck Knives Inc., which this spring said it was thinking about moving its headquarters and manufacturing plant to Post Falls, now has said it will stay put in Southern California for at least two more years, according to news reports.Two San a

Fueled by attractive interest rates and the chance to fill niche and underserved housing markets, developers here recently have proposed or begun work on a healthy number of new apartment projects in the Spokane area. Real estate observers say

Clarkston, Wash.-based defense contractor Isothermal Systems Research Inc. has leased a building in Liberty Lake and plans to begin moving its corporate headquarters there next month. The company expects to employ 120 to 150 people in the facility

Itronix Corp., the Spokane maker of rugged computers, has leased a 2-year-old building in Liberty Lake that telecommunications equipment maker Telect Inc. owns and had occupied until scaling back its operations last year.Dave Bergman, Itronixs

World Wide Packets, of Spokane, found itself within the fallout radius of the technology-industry meltdown last year, and since then has been trying to wait out what founder and CEO Bernard Daines describes as a nuclear winter.He remains in

The story of a Spokane venture started by a self-described homebody begins a half a world away.It was early 2000 when Pete Smith founded the business, called Mainstream Watergarden Construction, out of his Spokane home. Instead of relying on and

ICT Group Inc.s big Spokane Valley call-center operation is in the process of hiring 100 additional workers here to handle customer relations for a new nationwide wireless-telephone service thats being launched by Virgin Group, the quirky and a

Though the regulatory maze remains tortuous for some, developing property in the Spokane area appears to be getting easier, industry and government officials say.That may be most evident in comments by developers, contrasted by time.Its a

After first claiming that it had no record of involvement in suspect power-trading schemes, Avista Corp. has told the U.S. government that it was used by Enron Corp. in the Death Star power-trading strategy in April, May, and June made the