Julie Olsen's latest business venture began to emerge about this time last year, when she decided she wanted to buy an eGo electric scooter to cut down on the use of her car—and to have a little fun along the way.The trouble was, she find a

A development company led by a Spokane-area builder and a lawyer has started work on a $3.5 million office building on the South Hill.Builder Mike Silvey, a partner in the development company, Legacy Group Development LLC, says the three-level &

Developers of a planned hotel at the northwest corner of Third and Division—near one of the main entrances to Spokane—say they've lost financing for the $9 million-plus project, but are optimistic they can re-establish it by May and that

POST FALLS—Bucking a familiar trend in the manufacturing sector, knife maker Buck Knives Inc. says it has been bringing back to its plant here some of the production that it had been contracting out to Chinese manufacturers in recent shift, by

On Dec. 16, Spokane quietly became home to a new billion-dollar company, as Spokane-based Potlatch Corp. completed a spin-off of its expansive pulp and paperboard operations.Although the new enterprise, Clearwater Paper Corp., employs just 25 at

Inland Northwest Health Services, the big Spokane-based nonprofit, is riding a growth wave that has been weakened only modestly by the countercurrents of recession and the swirling distractions of its two financially ailing hospital-system posted a