A long-term proposal to turn a large piece of land north of the shuttered former Kaiser Aluminum Corp. Mead Works smelter into a mixed-use development has advanced with Spokane County commissioners' approval of a tax-increment financing district at

Gadgets," Eric Frickle answers enthusiastically, when asked what The Kitchen Engine, in the Flour Mill retail development, sells more of than anything else. "We sell more gadgets and tools than you can imagine." Frickle, 27, is president and of

Spokane inventor and entrepreneur John Adrain, who has collector-car auction experience and what he describes as a long history of "horse trading," is helping to market three resurrected World War II-era Mercedes-Benz cars designed and built for at

Windows 7, the new operating system that software giant Microsoft Corp. plans to release worldwide next week, is getting much more positive reviews from business computer experts here than its predecessor, Windows Vista, which many companies never