The city of Sandpoint has received a $500,000 grant from the state of Idaho to build a wastewater treatment plant that one of Sandpoints largest employers, Litehouse Inc., says is necessary for it to grow.Litehouse, which makes salad dips, and

Spokane-area doctors and hospitals are turning up the heat in their campaign to obtain payment for health care they have provided to Medicaid patients from Idaho.An alliance of the Spokane County Medical Society, Empire Health Services, and has

Do you have any gas caps like this one?The stocky, young man held up a weathered-looking piece of aluminum between two soiled fingers as he asked the question, then waited patiently for an answer.Margaret Rudisile, 74-year-old owner of at

A handful of investors is considering developing a $30 million car-racing track in East Spokane, attorney Roy Koegen says.Koegen, managing partner in the Spokane office of Seattle-based Perkins-Coie LLP, says some investors have approached him a

Spokanes three Meineke Discount Mufflers stores have been bought by a new company thats affiliated with a big Meineke franchisee in Portland, Ore.The Spokane-based company, SRD Inc., also has a license to open a fourth Meineke store in the a

Taxable retail sales in Spokane County rose a healthy 6.7 percent last year to $5.6 billion, outpacing gains in 1999, when they rose 6.3 percent to $5.2 billion.Within the city of Spokane, taxable sales climbed 6.1 percent last year to $3.2 also

A large, long-proposed apartment complex on Spokanes North Side, to be named Prairie Hills at Grayhawk, appears to be moving forward.The city of Spokane has issued building permits for seven of 10 apartment buildings planned in the first phase

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, has reported a net loss of about $14.1 million for its second fiscal quarter ended March 31, down sharply from net income of about $455,000 for the year-earlier period. The loss was on revenues of

Spokane Regional Aquatics Center Inc., a new nonprofit corporation here, hopes to develop a $12 million-to-$15 million indoor swimming facility in the Spokane Valley.Jeff Eickerman, president of Spokane Regional Aquatics, says preliminary design

Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC, of Spokane, began a marketing blitz in January to promote its contract-manufacturing services, and the strategy appears to be working: The pharmaceutical makers contract sales are up more than 300 percent for the