Premier Manufacturing Inc., a Spokane Valley precision sheet-metal fabricator, has absorbed I-90 Express Finishing Inc., an affiliated powder-coating concern, and is moving the two operations into the former Ice World building, in Liberty corporate

An expressway to the information superhighway might come to Spokane within a year.An Eastern Washington consortium wants to light up an extremely high-speed, large-bandwidth fiber-optic network between Spokane and Seattle and establish a hub of

Building Material Distributors Inc., a Northern California company that supplies building materials to lumber yards, building material dealers, and home-improvement chains, recently acquired the assets of White Water Forest Products Inc., a treated

A Spokane businessman plans to open an Airstream recreational vehicle dealership in Spokane Valley next month.The dealership, Airstream of Spokane, will be located at 1104 N. Park just south of Interstate 90 and west of Argonne, says Nick who a

Spokane County expects to start work this spring on a multiyear, $35.6 million project to widen and reconfigure the heavily used Bigelow Gulch Road route that serves as a bypass between Spokanes North Side and the Valley.That about 8.5-mile a

When sisters Kim Stone, of Spokane, and Melissa Earle, of Sarasota, Fla., decided to go into business together they had some issues to resolve.Stone refused to move to Sarasota, and Earle refused to move to Spokane, so the compromise solution &

A crush of apartment construction is under way in the Spokane area, following relatively little activity in that building sector in recent years. Spokane County and the city of Spokane issued building permits for $93.1 million in multifamily up

When Louis Davenport opened his palatial new hotel in downtown Spokane in 1914, he played a part in breathing new life into the city. Walt and Karen Worthys reopening of the Davenport Hotel in 2002 appears to have given Spokane a similar evidence

Isothermal Systems Research Inc., a Liberty Lake maker of cooling technologies for electronic components, says it expects to employ as many as 1,000 people within the next five years as it broadens its focus from being mostly a defense contractor a

Predictions from nearly every economic sector here point to a vibrant year aheadPull out your sunglasses, because the economy here looks to be brightening.Based on interviews with dozens of experts and observers in the industry sectors that