Isothermal Systems Research Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of cooling technologies for electronics, has opened branch offices in both Seattle and Wichita, Kansas, and has formed a strategic partnership with Seattle-based Callison Architecture a

Whitworth College broke ground earlier this month on a $7.8 million dormitory building at the east end of its North Spokane campus. Whitworth spokesman Greg Orwig says the structure will be four stories tall and will have a total of 160 beds in

Spokane developer Steve Schmautz and his wife, Tresa, have bought an office-warehouse building in Spokane Valley thats currently home to InCyte Pathology Inc., and they plan to renovate the structure into a speculative office-retail building the

Pepsi Bottling Group Spokane says it will shut down its canned-beverage production line here next month and will begin shipping such products here from a production plant in Seattle.Twelve employees work on the production line, and 10 of them a

LFA Investments LLC, of Coeur dAlene, says it plans to develop a 74-unit, three-building condominium complex next to the Coeur dAlene Resort Golf Course.A cost estimate for the overall project wasnt disclosed, but Ken Ault, one of the in

When I am an old woman I shall wear purpleWith a red hat which doesnt go, and doesnt suit meSo starts the poem, Warning, by Jenny Joseph, with a sentence that has inspired roughly 1 million women nationwide to don purple and a

Greenstone Corp., the big Liberty Lake-based development company, plans to build a 100-home planned-unit development in the Albion Heights neighborhood in southwest Spokane. Jim Frank, president of Greenstone, says the development will be on 22

High-end condominiums in and around downtown Spokane are selling briskly at a couple of projects, and prices of unfinished units are climbing higher in at least one instance.Meantime, more condominium developments are being considered or are in

With diesel prices above $3 a gallon and some Inland Northwest farmers having difficulty finding enough fuel to keep their machinery operating, four Spokane and Whitman county agricultural cooperatives are weighing development of a biodiesel plant

Diabetics, who typically also suffer weight problems, now can lower their blood sugar levels to normal and lose weight in a slow, steady manner thanks to an injectable drug recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, say Spokane who