One year into a city of Spokane initiative to improve its interactions with businesses, the city's building and planning department has made changes to speed up the plan review process required for applicants to obtain a building permit, and now to

Spokane and the Inland Northwest clearly are at the forefront of a national movement toward enhanced health-care information technology and stand to benefit as that movement picks up momentum, a federal official said during a recent visit many your

Locally owned Valley fast-food joint opens Spokane restaurateur Harold Fettig has opened Stop N Go Family Drive-In, a family-owned restaurant, at 6505 E. Sprague, in Spokane Valley.The 3,200-square-foot building had been occupied by

Spokane Valley-based State Bank Northwest has reported second-quarter net income of $210,000, up from a net loss of $383,000 in the second quarter of 2009, according to documents filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.The institution's of

Imagetech, a vendor of copiers and other office machines here, plans to move this month from leased space at 15320 E. Marietta, in Spokane Valley, to a building it has bought at 1515 E. Houston, on Spokane's North Side. The company's new will of

RiverBank, which opened here four years ago, posted much higher second-quarter net income of $562,000, up from $58,000 in the year-earlier quarter, regulatory documents show.The privately held institution ended the second quarter with total of a

D.A. Davidson & Co. has raised its estimate of Potlatch Corp.'s 2010 earnings to $1.59 a share, from $1.40 a share, and has increased its estimate of the Spokane-based company's 2011 earnings to $1.75 a share, up from $1.71.The Great Falls, also

A Spokane developer has entered preliminary discussions with the city of Spokane about a proposed 12,000-square-foot retail addition at the Lincoln Heights Shopping Center, but hasn't disclosed what tenant or type of tenant might occupy the north a