Banks, already hit hard by sharply higher federal deposit insurance premiums earlier in 2009, were required to prepay three years worth of higher premiums on Dec. 30 last year, saddling them with a sharply higher expense for deposit Northwest Bank,

Blue Water Technologies Inc., a Hayden-based concern known for its technology that removes phosphorus from wastewater, quietly has been adding to its resume the elimination of other contaminants, and now hopes to perfect a way to produce from the

Spokane Public Schools has selected Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, as the general contractor and construction manager of the planned $60 million construction and renovation project at Ferris High School, on Spokane's South Hill, where work is