The owners of the Viking, a longtime and popular tavern here, and Season Ticket Sports, Spirits & Grub, a sports bar and restaurant near Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, have filed personally for protection from creditors in U.S. Bankruptcy Court a

Sonderen Packaging, a Spokane maker of folding-carton products, has bought the assets of Seattle-based Stoneway Carton Co.President Mark Sonderen says he expects that the acquisition will boost Sonderen Packagings revenues by about 30 percent

Flooring Sales Group LLC, a Coeur dAlene-based company that operates a chain of Great Floors retail stores in Washington and Idaho, says it has acquired the Spokane operation of The Invironmentalists, a national commercial flooring chain, for an

Sunrise Wood Products Inc., a Spokane-based manufacturer of custom doors, mantels, and moldings, plans to move to a bigger facility next spring from its current location near the Iron Bridge Corporate Campus.Sunrise will occupy a 50,000-square

Inland Northwest Health Services extensive electronic medical-records network here has caught the eye of some high-level federal officials, and the Spokane nonprofit hopes to be in on the early stages of an effort to form a national records CEO a

Serving in a ministerial position with the Catholic Church during his 20s, Michael Carmody didnt have much discretionary income. What he did have, though, was a high number of bird sightings under his belt and a good reputation in circles. I

Coldwater Creek Inc., the Sandpoint-based national retailer thats opening new stores at a blistering pace, will add 60 employees at its headquarters campus in the coming year and also will launch a major renovation there that will boost its space

Washington State University has begun raising money for a $55 million facelift and expansion at Martin Stadium, the Pullman, Wash., home of the WSU Cougars football team.WSUs athletic department is spearheading fund raising for the proposed a

Crown West Realty LLC, the Spokane-based owner of the big Spokane Business & Industrial Park, is on an aggressive building-acquisition spree in Phoenix, having been involved with two recent purchases there worth more than $80 million, including one

With the upcoming winter-sports season about ready to get under way, Inland Northwest ski areas are making or planning sizable capital improvements, buoyed partly by rising numbers of young snowboarders andin a couple of casesby visions of from