Avista Corp., which operates one of the nation's oldest and biggest wood-fired generating plants at Kettle Falls, Wash., says it would be interested in the results of a planned University of Idaho study of the use of a crop-drying trailer to dry an

Itron Inc., of Spokane, and Verizon Wireless, of Basking Ridge, N.J., have announced a joint marketing agreement under which they will work together to develop secure, two-way communications for utilities that want to employ Itron's advanced to as

Spokane County has increased its fees for land-use and development applications, citing a need to recover the cost of processing them. Some land-use experts, however, say the new fees, which in some cases amount to increases of thousands of are law

The Bonneville Power Administration plans to construct a 6,500-square-foot aircraft hangar at Spokane International Airport, where it keeps one to two helicopters used to spot from the air problems along its power transmission lines.Grace Gates,

Acme Concrete Paving Inc., of Spokane, has submitted a low bid of $30.7 million for a 19-month Spokane International Airport project to repave SIA's main runway and its two supporting taxiways, and to extend them by 2,000 feet.SIA had estimated

Both public and private project owners are scooping up incredible deals on construction this year, in the form of what seem like incredibly low bids for work. In some cases, contractors' bids for projects are coming in at between 30 percent and a