Inland Northwest Bank, of Spokane, plans to build a freestanding branch in Post Falls that likely will replace the grocery-store branch the bank has operated there since 1996. Spokane-based Madsen Mitchell Evenson & Conrad PLLC is finishing on

The owners of Panco Construction Inc. here have bought the former BMC West Corp. property, at 6206 E. Trent, and plan to move the construction company to that 4.2-acre complex eventually. Panco currently is located at 7903 E. Broadway and 30 a

A Los Angeles-based boat-products wholesaler, Diversified Marine Products, plans to open a Northwest distribution center at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park. Separately, two other companies, Tukwila, Wash.-based hardwood-flooring Co. and

For the second time in three years, the Washington state Department of Financial Institutions has launched securities-related disciplinary proceedings against Spokane-based direct-mail publishing company Northwest Best Direct Inc. and its owners,

A hardware retailer here that opened an Ace Hardware store on the South Hill in 2002 plans to open its second Spokane-area store.The company, Jant Group II Inc., has leased a 17,500-square-foot former Rite Aid Corp. store building at the corner

MatriCal Inc., the Spokane-based maker of devices used in pharmaceutical research, says it has reached an agreement with a leading neuroscience company to supply equipment for that companys drug-development operations.MatriCal sold one of its

Cascade Furniture Manufacturing has moved to Spokane Valley from Hayden, Idaho, bringing 15 jobs with it, says Henry Sanchez, the companys president and owner.The company, which makes furniture for hotels, schools, and other institutional has

COEUR DALENEJoe Morris was working in his office at Kootenai Medical Center here in September when he was summoned to one of the hospitals operating rooms. There, Morris witnessed the first open-heart surgery ever performed in North Idaho. in

Harlan Douglass, one of Spokane Countys largest developers, land owners, and taxpayers, and his wife, Maxine, are appealing an Internal Revenue Service order to pay $931,000 in back federal income taxes.The couple have filed a petition in Tax

Five Mile Prairie is like a rural island in an urban sea.Though just a short drive from Spokanes heavily commercial North Division Y, the prairielocated atop a large bluff that rises several hundred feet above surrounding city dotted it