Word on the street is that manufacturing is dead in the U.S. Companies are sending jobs overseas in order to compete. Block-size factories sit empty on deserted streets, aging with the dust of years gone by. Towns are boarded up as families move on to fin

The Spokane business community potentially could lose coveted manufacturing jobs if a statewide carbon tax is created. That's a risk that voters shouldn't take, and because of this, they should reject Initiative 732. Being better stewards of the env

Portland-based Umpqua Bank plans to move its downtown Spokane branch to a main-floor storefront in the nearby Crescent Building, at 707 W. Main, according to building permit information on file with the city of Spokane. An Umpqua spokeswoman confirmed th

Coeur d'Alene-based New Jersey Mining Co., which owns and operates the New Jersey Mill in Kellogg, Idaho, says it has bought out minority shareholders in GF&H, a private company that holds 374 acres of patented mining claims near Murray, Idaho. 'It w