Rita Santillanes, co-owner of four hotels, including two in the Spokane area, has been named to a new term on the Spokane Public Facilities District board.Santillanes represents the Spokane Hotel-Motel Association on the five-member board. She

Pioneer Human Services, a Seattle-based nonprofit that operates five housing facilities in Spokane, is seeking the sale of state revenue bonds to refinance a building it owns, at 224 S. Howard downtown, that provides low-income housing for disabled

Northwest Bancorporation Inc., the Spokane-based parent of Inland Northwest Bank, has reported a third-quarter net loss of $804,000, or 34 cents a share, compared with net income of $203,000, or 9 cents a share, in the year-earlier results show L.

Spokane restaurateur Dennis Kelly, who owns four Zip's Drive-In restaurants here, says he has bought a fifth, in Spokane Valley. Separately, the longtime owners of the Zip's in Cheney say they and some partners have reopened a Zip's outlet in that

Northwest Farm Credit Services, of Spokane, has reported third-quarter net income of $29.9 million, compared with $39 million in the year-earlier quarter.Through the first nine months of this year, earnings were $65.6 million, compared with in a

Tina and David Bishop, of Spokane Valley, say they've leased a large space in the Riverwalk Plaza near Trent Avenue and Hamilton Street where they plan to open soon one of two events centers in a venture that also will include a restaurant, lounge,

A renovated, but mostly vacant 24,000-square-foot retail center at the northwest corner of the busy Sprague Avenue-Freya Street intersection has been sold to Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based American Marine Bank at a trustee's auction here for the a

Litehouse Foods Inc., the longtime Sandpoint salad dressing maker, recently launched a new line of varietal apple cider blends that it says marks an expansion by the company in a new direction. Paul Kuschke, Litehouse's director of marketing and

Two businessmen say they plan to open a franchise in Spokane Valley of HiLine Homes, which builds conventionally constructed homes "on your site", to serve the Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, and Sandpoint areas.HiLine Homes, based in Puyallup, Wash.,