As gas prices skyrocket and the snow season approaches, manufacturers are introducing smaller sports-utility vehicles that allow consumers to spend more time driving in the mountains and less money at the gas pump.Six new midsize SUVs are or is

Spokane Junior Academy, a private school operated by Seventh-day Adventist churches for children in kindergarten through 10th grade, has started site development for its long-envisioned new school building in northwest Spokane.Art Lenz, for the

Isothermal Systems Research Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of technology that cools electronics, has formed a strategic alliance with London-based Smiths Aerospace to develop jointly products and programs for both the military and commercial is

Superior Tramway Co., of Spokane, has been awarded contracts totaling about $6.5 million for projects at Crystal Mountain, a ski resort near Mount Rainier in Western Washington, and at the Lookout Pass Ski & Recreation Area along Interstate 90 near

Itronix Corp., of Spokane, is in line to receive $6.5 million for a project to ruggedize a handheld computer for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. Funding for the project, called the Warfighter Pocket XP project, currently is included in

Spokane-based Sterling Savings Bank plans to open two new retail bank branches in the Seattle areaincluding its first retail branch in downtown Seattlenext month. The second new branch will be located north of Seattle, in Lynnwood.The two a

Gonzaga University says it plans to offer once again its own undergraduate nursing degree and ultimately to end its longtime relationship with the Washington State University Intercollegiate College of Nursing. Mary Sue Gorski, chairwoman of by

Spokane discount grocer Mike Clancy, who owns two Grocery Outlet stores here, plans to move his North Side store to an anchor space in the Northgate Shopping Center, at the southeast corner of Division Street and Lincoln Road.Clancy says he has

Nine years ago, Skip Davis needed a place like Sacred Heart Medical Center about as much as Sacred Heart needed a person like Davis.In his mid-50s at the time, Davis was living in Sacramento, Calif., and working for a national consulting firm a

Two big housing projectswhich together would add more than 300 apartments and nearly 300 homes to the growing Indian Trail Road areacould be moving ahead soon.The smaller of the two projects, a 96-unit apartment complex to be called Selkirk