First and foremost, Royce Drye will tell you, hes a professional fisherman who spends a few weeks each year trying to hook trophy walleye for big money prizes. It might not be surprising that the Spokane company he co-founded, The Tech Group a

A Canadian manufacturer of energy-saving lighting-system regulators and its Spokane-based distributor plan in August to open a joint office in the University of Idaho Research Park, in Post Falls.The Canadian company, Questal Technologies Inc.,

Work at the proposed Mount Spokane Plaza in the Mead area could start up again soon.Lincoln Partners LLC, a Spokane company formed by Spokane developer Joe Stanek and his family, has received building permits to construct two retail buildings a

LineSoft Corp., a Spokane-based maker of software for power-line planning and design, has inked a multimillion-dollar contract to provide software to WPS Resources Corp., of Green Bay, Wis.Tom Smith, a LineSoft spokesman, estimates the value of

Argus Services Inc., a Spokane Valley-based security company, says it has landed an annual contract worth $4.7 million to provide armed security personnel for about two dozen federal facilities along the Interstate 5 corridor in Oregon and new to a

Coeur dAlene School District No. 271 is planning an $11 million remodel and expansion of Coeur dAlene High School.Construction bids for the project are scheduled to be opened today, Feb. 8.If the bids are acceptable and a contract is to 1

Wells & Co., of Spokane, has begun some preliminary work on the former Fairmont Apartments building in downtown Spokane and expects to get its $7 million renovation project there into full swing within two months, Spokane developer and architect of

COEUR DALENEThe name Coeur dAlene can be difficult for first-timers to pronounce, and its meaning, heart of the awl, is obscure and kind of chilling. Some say it makes for pretty nice jewelry, though. Inspired by the Coeur and a

Silicon Valley in the 1990s was a place and time unlike any other, Bill Kalivas says. The Spokane native talks almost romantically about having been there, as an old hippie might talk about being in San Francisco in the late 1960s. The is that a