Lithia Motors Inc., of Medford, Ore., plans to buy Spokane-based Sutherland Motors Ltd., a Mercedes-Benz dealer located downtown, says Sutherlands Operations Manager Tom Grainger.Its a certainty that its happening, as told to us by our

The city of Spokanes design review committee and its Plan Commission will hold a joint workshop tonight to kick off discussions about new citywide design guidelines, which developers would be required to follow as they developed projects.The

Colmac Industries Inc., a Colville, Wash.-based company that makes pressing equipment for commercial laundries, has acquired the assets of Count On Us Corp., of Kansas City, Mo., which manufactures soiled-linen counting software and transaction the

Not so fast, Moses Lake and Everett.Spokane real estate developers Dick Edwards and Pete Thompson are making a belated pitch to Chicago-based Boeing Co. to choose a site on the West Plains here to build its next-generation 7E7 Dreamliner two a

Like a yeast starter that already has risen in several batches of bread, Spokane-based retailer Cooks Dream Inc. has grown from an eBay startup to a multifaceted Internet, brick-and-mortar, and culinary-education business. The companys two

Guess what segment of the Spokane-area home market is growing the fastest? The $100,000-to-$124,999 range? Thats the largest, but not the fastest growing. The $150,000-to-$199,999 range? Its growing briskly, but its not the fastest in

While the Inland Northwest economy limped its way through 2002, the regions top-level executives generally saw the kind of pay raises thatll put a spring in your step.Executives of publicly traded companies in Spokane and North Idaho, on 17

Nearly a decade after launching whats known as the Spokane Heart Study, its lead investigator is preparing to publish findings that could change the way the world looks at heart-disease risk.For instance, people who have high cholesterol but

The federal government and commercial airlines have been smacked with soaring airport-security costs during the last two years, but the financial impact on Spokane International Airport has been minimal, says SIA spokesman Todd Woodard.While of

Washington state legislators have earmarked money to save two Eastern Washington rail lines, a move that could help preserve hundreds of jobs here.One of those lines, the 5-mile Geiger rail spur on the West Plains, serves businesses that employ