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Business text app developer to ramp up

Spokane startup receives capital infusion, looks to increase its presence

August 15, 2013

Spokane-based startup Business Texter Inc., which has developed a mobile application for sending and receiving texts in large quantities, has received a fresh infusion of capital and is ramping up its operations.Company co-founder and CEO Aaron

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Railroad museum to roll west with $24.5 million project

Group readies plans to build near Reardan, vacate fairgrounds space

August 15, 2013

Kim Crompton

The Inland Empire Railway Historical Society is solidifying plans to begin developing an estimated $24.5 million destination museum near Reardan, about 20 miles west of Spokane, and to pull up stakes here.It has hired Bouten Construction Co., of

Global trade trends upward in the Inland Northwest

As the economy rebounds, companies here eye other markets

August 15, 2013

The international business market has continued to grow in Eastern Washington and across the state over the last five years, even amid recessionary pressures, and companies here likely will engage in more trade outside U.S. borders in coming years,

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Spokane-based Clearwater Paper expects big returns

Having invested in facilities, company's sales projected to rise

August 15, 2013

Treva Lind

Clearwater Paper Corp., the Spokane-based maker of tissue and paperboard products, is poised to increase sales in 2014 after spending the past few years developing a wider U.S. manufacturing footprint, says Linda K. Massman, president and claims to

In the News: August 15, 2013

August 15, 2013

Aug. 8 / Hecla reports $25 million lossHecla Mining Co., of Coeur d'Alene, reported a second-quarter net loss of $25 million, or 8 cents a diluted share, compared with net income of $2.4 million, or 1 cent a share, in the 2012 second quarter. in

Calendar: August 15, 2013

August 15, 2013

Meetings & EventsGreater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold a business connections breakfast on Friday, Aug. 16, at 6:30 a.m., at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, 1100 N. Sullivan. The program will be Marijuana: Budding or Bad

PFD to consider approving hotel development; Worthys have signed it

August 1, 2013

The Spokane Public Facilities District announced this morning that its board of directors will consider at its Aug. 13 meeting approving an agreement for development of a nationally branded, high-rise convention hotel near the Spokane Convention in

Eliassen to retire; Red Lion posts loss

August 1, 2013

Red Lion Hotels Corp., of Spokane, announced this afternoon that Jon E. Eliassen will step down as company president and CEO on Aug. 12, and James P. Evans, a director with the company's board, will serve as interim president and CEO.Eliassen will

Hecla reports quarterly loss

August 1, 2013

Hecla Mining Co., of Coeur d'Alene, reported today a second-quarter net loss of $25 million, or 8 cents a diluted share, compared with net income of $2.4 million, or 1 cent a share, in the year-earlier period. The loss includes $20.3 million in to

Avista posts earnings increase

August 1, 2013

Avista Corp., of Spokane, reported this morning second-quarter net income of $25.7 million, or 43 cents a diluted share, up from earnings of $18.1 million, or 31 cents a share, in the year-earlier period.Scott Morris, Avista's chairman, president,