Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based contract manufacturer, says it expects to begin making products in December for Kaz Inc., a Southborough, Mass.-based maker of health, home, and garden products.Key Tronic declines to say what product

ACI Coatings LLC plans to expand its services with a new 12,000-square-foot shop building that will be dedicated to pre-finishing woodwork and will double the Spokane Valley painting contractors current space, says Mike Kirschbaum, the companys

Enrollment is up at most Spokane-area colleges and universities, and several are reporting record or near-record freshman classes this fall. Only Eastern Washington University noted flat enrollment numbers, following a dip in enrollment last has of

Auto insurance rates continued to rise in the second quarter this year, according to a study by Insurance.com, which claims to be the nations largest online auto insurance agency. Insurance.coms quarterly Car Insurance Rate Report found on

Medical costs are continuing to mount at a pace well above inflation, but the practice of cost shifting, or shifting bigger portions of health-care premiums from employers to employees, may be leveling off, health-plan providers here say.As

Premera Blue Cross, the big Mountlake Terrace, Wash.-based health-care insurer, says earlier projections that its Spokane campus would employ 630 people by next year might not come true, based on efficiencies the insurer is implementing. Still,

Longtime Spokane law firm Randall & Danskin PS has added seven attorneys since the beginning of this year, giving it 19 lawyers in all, and says the expansion has broadened its business law expertise, its ability to provide clients with long-term &

Attorneys here practicing in what they describe as an emerging legal niche called collaborative law say that new field of law saves clients time and money and results in settlements that each party is more able to maintain over time.So far, law

Spokane County has set a tentative date of the week of Oct. 20 for naming a long-term operator for the 200-acre racing complex on the West Plains that it acquired two months ago.Earlier, the county had set a Sept. 19 deadline for receiving but

Spokane Valley-based Central Pre-Mix Concrete Co. says it plans to expand a basalt quarry on a square mile of property it owns in the Wandermere area north of Spokane.The property is located east of the north end of Perry Street and north of of