James F. Cotter, a San Antonio, Tex.-based real estate investor, has added the Argonne West I & II office complex to his recently startedand fast-growingportfolio of Spokane-area properties.Cotter bought Argonne West I & II, which is located

Parrott Mechanical Inc., a longtime North Idaho heating, plumbing, and electrical contractor that once employed more than 400 people companywide, has closed its Coeur dAlene office and laid off most of its employees. A Boise-based heating and

With cameras and tape recorder in hand, Bob Rowan boarded a plane last week for rural Holmes County, Ohio, to spend seven days among the Amish.It was one of countless trips that Rowan, who creates multimedia productions of photos, words, and for

Avista Corp. says its working on the possible sale of part of its majority-owned Avista Communications subsidiary to that units CEO and part-owner, Greg Green, and other minority shareholders.Avista Communications spokeswoman Annette Miller

The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11 have forced some Inland Northwest businesses to trim their expectations, while others have seen few ill effects. Two publicly traded Inland Northwest companies have reported say

Doctors offices, pharmacies, hospitals, health insurersin short, the entire health-care industryhave exactly one year to prepare for the first wave of new federal regulations covering the handling of medical records.Its not a task Many a

An unusual offer by the Washington state Department of Transportation to exchange almost four acres of property on North Ruby Street for the construction work on two projects has failed to produce any offers acceptable to DOT. The projects include

In the latest in a string of legal actions filed over Ice World USA, a Liberty Lake ice-skating rink, three of the companys five owners allege that the other two owners are trying to cut them out of the business at the same time theyre trying 1

The Spokane and Coeur dAlene chambers of commerce have established a group called the Joint Regional Issues Task Force to tackle topics that affect the business communities in both cities. The task force includes 16 peopleeight from the Area