The International Trade Alliance (ITA), a Spokane-based nonprofit organization that seeks to help businesses here export their products, will announce its affiliation with the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate at a Feb. 19 a

The Inland Northwest chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America honored six construction companies here for excellence during the organization's 2008 Build Northwest Awards ceremony, held here Jan. 30 at the Davenport were judged by a

Peaks & Plains Medical Inc., of Spokane, plans to move one of its retail locations for medical supplies here to the South Hill from the North Side because too few customers have become aware of its longtime location there, and sales there have to &

Community Frameworks, a Spokane-based nonprofit, has received a $6.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that it plans to distribute through a network of 40 organizations in four states to help low-income people

Watkins Distributing, Sales & Service, a Twin Falls, Idaho-based wholesale beer distributor with outlets in southern Idaho, has bought the assets of Centennial Distributing Inc., of Hayden, Idaho.Centennial is the sole Anheuser-Busch Cos. and to

Spokane County hearing examiner Michael Dempsey has approved a preliminary plat for a proposed 555-unit development named Aspen Park, in the Geiger Heights area west of Spokane.Foursquare Properties Inc., of Carlsbad, Calif., wants to develop of

Huntwood Industries Inc.'s employment has slipped further this winter, but the big Spokane cabinetmaker believes that its growing commercial project sales department is about to bear fruit.That department seeks sales of the company's products as

Washington State and Eastern Washington universities want to accelerate construction of a proposed $45 million biomedical building on the Riverpoint Campus here, and in an unusual step are seeking funds for two design phases of the project this at

General Growth Properties Inc., the troubled Chicago-based owner of three of the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area's largest shopping centers, has negotiated a deadline extension until March 15 on two loans that reportedly total more than $4 company had a

Meridian Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, is the apparent low bidder on a renovation project that Community Colleges of Spokane is planning for the former Washington State University Intercollegiate College of Nursing building, just east a