As Congress debates financial regulatory reform and the Obama administration advocates for greater consumer financial protection, a new study finds a need for congressional action on fringe banking practices used heavily by financially vulnerable a

Akron, Ohio-based Associated Materials LLC, a building-materials supplier doing business here as Alside Supply Center, has leased 19,800 square feet of industrial space at 3420 E. Desmet, in the Chimney Rock Industrial Park, and plans to move its

The Spokane Valley branch of Tigard, Ore.-based Consolidated Supply of Oregon will move soon to a new location that will give it space for a showroom and that will be closer in.With its lease ending at its current facility, the plumbing and had

Cherry Creek Mortgage Co. has leased 4,000 square feet of office space on the ground floor of the Riverview Corporate Center, at 162201 E. Indiana, in Spokane Valley, and plans to move its Spokane-area branch office there this spring, says Marco at

The Port of Columbia, in Dayton, Wash., northeast of Walla Walla, has unveiled preliminary site plans for an envisioned organic food-processing complex, to be called Blue Mountain Station, that it intends to develop at the west end of that small it

The Washington state Department of Ecology says it has submitted a water quality plan for the Spokane River and Lake Spokane to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for final approval.The plan has been 12 years in the making, and the of it a

A significant gap lies between consumers' attitudes towards "green" initiatives in the hospitality industry and their actual behavior, says a study by two hospitality and tourism management graduate students at Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of in