More Spokane and Coeur dAlene-area businesses are looking closely at selling goods and services in the booming oil-sands development area in Alberta after they sent representatives on a trade mission recently to Edmonton and Calgary, the two a on

World Wide Packets Inc., the Spokane Valley-based company founded by computer networking guru Bernard Daines and sold recently to a Baltimore-area concern for nearly $300 million, says it expects to grow its operations here and is looking for last

As a surge of traveling motorists teemed across the U.S. in the decade after World War II, roadside motels sprouted up along the east end of Coeur dAlenes Sherman Avenue, which then carried U.S. 10, a main east-west artery.In 1964, work on

With the paint barely dry on a recent $42 million expansion of its facility here, Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC has started work on another multimillion-dollar project thats expected to boost its production capability further and heat up its a

When Liberty Lake real estate agent Julie Anne Young takes potential homebuyers around the Spokane area to see real estate listings, she no longer strays far from her office. As of last month, Youngs office is never farther away than the and

The top three Inland Northwest builders of single-family homesViking Construction Inc., Sullivan Homes Inc., and Greenstone Corp.all saw their total building-permit values rise last year, compared with 2006, says an annual list compiled by of

Building heights, streetscapes, traffic flow, and catalytic development projectstheyre but a few of the wide-ranging topics being scrutinized by the Downtown Spokane Partnership as it works to freshen a 9-year-old vision for the downtown a

Magnuson Hotels, a 5-year-old Spokane-based company that markets and provides reservation management services to independent hotels, says its business has soared since it launched a branding campaign last September.About 100 hotels across the a

Spokanes hotel industry, following a year in which room-tax revenues rose at their highest rate in 16 years, is expected to see more modest growth this year, and pick up steam again in 2009, experts here say.Room-tax revenues in Spokane rose

Frustrated by not being able to reach his cell phone easily while riding his bicycle, Spokane entrepreneur Steve Lach invented a modern variation on the plastic sports-type drink bottle, a concept he came up with on a bike ride. His invention, he a