Spokane Valley-based mining company Revett Minerals Inc. says suspended underground mining at its Troy Mine in Montana since December led to its second-quarter net loss of $4.1 million, compared with a loss of $2.2 million for the year-earlier says

Custom gasket manufacturer True Seals LLC, the company co-founded by a former Nott-Atwater Co. executive after that company was sold and moved, has agreed to lease the former Nott-Atwater building, at 1309 N. Bradley, in Spokane Valley.Cody of

Itron Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of utility metering reading technology, has rolled out a new product intended to gauge accurately energy usage in multifamily housing and multitenant commercial complexes.Called EquaScan, the product is a

The Washington state Employment Security Department announced today preliminary August employment data that put the Spokane County unemployment rate at 7.2 percent, its lowest level since December 2008. The preliminary August figure is down from a

Avista Corp. announced this morning that it has filed requests to raise rates for Washington state natural gas customers by 9.4 percent and for electric customers in the state by 2.1 percent.The Spokane-based utility is asking the Washington and a

Sterling Financial Corp., the Spokane-based parent of Sterling Bank, and Portland-based Umpqua Holdings Corp. announced this afternoon that they had entered into a definitive agreement for Umpqua to acquire Sterling. The total value of the planned

Meetings & EventsThe Inland Northwest chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners will hold its September chapter meeting on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 5 p.m., at the Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln. The topic will be Discovering