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Ambassadors Group hopes to stem five-year slide

Spokane travel provider projects delegate volumes will flatten, grow modestly

August 29, 2013

With a proxy battle behind it and longtime executives out of office, Spokane-based travel provider Ambassadors Group Inc. believes it will stem a five-year decline and start to build up its traveler volumes again. Meanwhile, interim CEO Anthony

Spokane steps up spending to curb river pollutants

Up to $350 million in projects expected over five years

August 29, 2013

Treva Lind

The city of Spokane expects to issue about $65 million in bonds next year and $100 million in 2015 to fund future phases of its integrated clean water plan to reduce the volume of untreated discharges into the Spokane River. Similar to hundreds

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Post Falls-based Ground Force expands overseas

Mining truck outfitter's foreign growth said fueling jobs here

August 29, 2013

Mike McLean

Ground Force Worldwide LLC, the Post Falls-based parent company of Ground Force Manufacturing LLC and Underground Force LLC, has launched manufacturing operations on two other continents and is looking to expand to a fourth, says Ron Nilson, the in

Calendar: August 29, 2013

August 29, 2013

Meetings & EventsThe Washington Policy Center, an independent, nonpartisan think tank promoting sound public policy based on free-market solutions, will hold its 2013 Annual Dinner on Thursday, Sept. 5, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Spokane Center,

Unemployment rate hits 8.1 percent for July

August 15, 2013

The Washington state Employment Security Department announced today preliminary July employment data that put the Spokane County unemployment rate at 8.1 percent, down from 8.6 percent in July 2012 but up from 7.9 percent in June.A separate, state

Key Tronic's earnings dip for quarter, increase for year

August 15, 2013

Key Tronic Corp., Spokane Valley-based provider of electronic manufacturing services, reported this afternoon net income of $2.4 million, or 22 cents a diluted share, for its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter that ended June 29. That's down from earnings

Hadley to step down as GSI president, CEO

August 15, 2013

Greater Spokane Incorporated, the combined chamber of commerce and economic development council for the Spokane area, announced this afternoon that its president and CEO, Rich Hadley, will step down in April 2014. Hadley, 66, has served as the for

Small Business Watch

August 15, 2013

Bathroom remodeler opens store in ValleyCharles Hartshorn, a longtime contractor specializing in bathroom remodels, has opened a Bath Planet dealership and workshop in Spokane Valley.Bath Planet occupies 2,400 square feet of space at 17702 E.

Spokane Rock Products wins county repaving job

Bruce Road Bridge plan put on back burner until next spring, officials say

August 15, 2013

Jessica Valencia

Spokane Rock Products Inc., of Spokane Valley, has been named the contractor on a $1.5 million project to repave more than three miles of Bruce Road, says Spokane County assistant engineer Chad Coles. Work on the county road northeast of Spokane

Upgrades worth $1.1 million slated at Greene Street bridge

Job awarded to West Side contractor, to enable lifting of weight restrictions there

August 15, 2013

Jessica Valencia

The city of Spokane has awarded a $1.1 million Greene Street bridge upgrade project to Kirkland, Wash.-based Leewens Corp., says city spokeswoman Julie Happy. The bridge is located in the projected path of the long-envisioned North Spokane near