More than 80 percent of lenders who responded to a recent survey believe the Dow Jones Industrial Average will yield gains this year. Survey respondents also predict that constrained liquidity in the capital markets and sluggish housing market are

Sales manager buys into Liberty Lake, Valley Windermere Rick Rieger, a former sales manager for an international medical supplier, says he has bought a 50 percent interest in Windermere Real Estate Valley Inc. from broker and owner The

The discussion of public-policy matters here should get a welcome boost with the Washington Policy Center adding its well-researched opinions to the mix more frequently, following its recent opening of an Eastern Washington office here.The says

Randall L. Fewel, president and CEO of Inland Northwest Bank, has projected that the Spokane-based institution will return to profitability this year.The bank's parent, Northwest Bancorporation Inc., reported recently a fourth-quarter net loss a

Central Pre-Mix Development Corp. is seeking to rezone for mining uses 85 acres of land it bought in 2008 at an auction of part of the former Spokane Raceway Park property.Central Pre-Mix, which produces ready-mix cement and sand and gravel to a

The operator of Red Lion Hotels Corp.'s TicketsWest call center here says it has begun having some of the employees in that center work from their homes. TicketsWest outsourced its call center ticket sales in Spokane last spring to Dallas-based

Accurate Molded Plastics Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, is erecting a 20,000-square-foot addition at its manufacturing plant there, says Scott Gabbert, the company's general manager.The company currently occupies about 35,000 square feet of floor space

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, says its net margins jumped 56 percent last year to slightly more than $5 million, due largely to record power sales, lower operating costs, and the sale of its former headquarters