The Spokane-area economy has been adding jobs at a much faster pace so far this year than it did during 1999.Through the first half of the year, an average of nearly 4,000 more people were employed here than in the year-earlier months, according

Agilent Technologies Inc. recently installed a fourth modular office building on its Liberty Lake campus, and will move workers into that structure next month.The modular office gives Agilent an additional 25,600 square feet of space at its Lake

Spokane developer Harlan Douglass and his wife, Maxine, are suing LeMaster & Daniels PLLC, also of Spokane, for allegedly making a mistake on their income-tax returns that the Douglasses claim cost them $1.1 million in taxes and fines.LeMaster &

Two Spokane investors, Dan McKinney and Bill Main Jr., have bought the former Spokane Police Guild Club near the Spokane County Courthouse, have converted it for office use, and have formed tentative plans to develop a larger office park who owns a

Greenstone Corp., a Spokane-based development company, is seeking permission from the city of Spokane to develop a nearly 44-acre planned-unit development on the North Side that would include 186 single-family homes and 11 industrial lots.The be

Appleway Automotive Group, of Spokane, has demolished its Mazda dealership building, at 10006 E. Sprague, and plans to build a new sales and service center there for its Audi and Volkswagen lines, county records show.Appleway currently sells and

Cyan Inc., the Spokane company that produced Myst, the worlds best-selling computer game, will double the size of both its work force and its Mead-area headquarters over the next several months, company spokesman Jeff Oswalt says.Cyan plans to

Eastern Washington University is considering adding doctoral-level programs in biotechnology and computer science, two areas of industry that Spokane economic-development interests have identified as hot prospects for growth here, EWU President and

What-A-Melon Bomb Pops, Firecracker Jrs., and Strawberry Burst Big Dippers are among the wares of Spokane-based Rainbow Ice Cream Novelties.Its tools of the trade include 10 small, three-wheeled vehicles, each equipped with a freezer chest and a

This year has been a wild ride for Sytech Inc., a 3-year-old Spokane precision sheet-metal fabricator whose sales, employment, and shop size have rocketed ahead in recent months. The small Spokane Valley company, which primarily serves the and a