If the volume of new export sales that companies here are landing is any indication, Spokanes quietly thriving export trade is making some noise abroad.Companies here say theyre in hot pursuit of new opportunities outside the U.S. and are a

Boise-based discount grocery chain WinCo Foods Inc. has bought 20 acres of land along Nevada Street in North Spokane and says it plans to enter the market here with a roughly 93,000-square-foot store it will build at that site.Last week, WinCo

Mobile banking no longer means just driving up to a window, pneumatic tube machine, or ATM. Mobile communication devicescell phones, personal digital assistants (PDA), and similar deviceshave commandeered the term and some of the functions as a

The name of all 14 branches of F&M Bank here will be changed to Banner Bank within a month, says Lloyd Baker, chief financial officer of Banner Corp., the Walla Walla, Wash.-based bank holding company that acquired F&M in May.Banner Corp., the

Loomis, whose armored trucks have been a familiar sight on Spokanes streets for most of a century, says its pursuing new avenues in cash handling services to help drive its continued growth.New products and services the companys Spokane a

Think of food banks and you think of canned-food drives and small charitable outlets where shelves of donated items await the needy. Look behind the curtain, however, and youll find a distribution operation that rivals grocery warehouses in and a

Using radio waves, rather than chemicals, may be the best, post-harvest process for debugging dried fruits and nuts, according to a team of researchers led by a Washington State University professor.Radio waves that generate heat to kill the in

As fall harvest approaches, Inland Northwest farmers are hoping to realize prices for soft white wheat that are nearly double what they received last year.The price of wheat, posted prominently in big letters on a readerboard in downtown Colfax

Heidi Stanley likes change. More specifically, she likes instigating it.Thats not surprising, since Stanley had a hand in the evolution of a Spokane savings and loan association into an $11.4 billion financial institution, and has helped the

The presence here of two companies that finish and heat-treat metal was instrumental in the recently announced recruitment to Hayden, Idaho, of Titan Spring Co., a North Hollywood, Calif., manufacturer that makes many of its products for the Titan