The economic slowdown is already hitting executives where it really hurtsin their own wallets.For the first time since 1996, executives of publicly traded companies in Spokane and North Idaho, on average, saw their paychecks shrink last year,

Those distant future plans for a third runway at Spokane International Airport arent so distant anymore. A draft of the airports newest master plan calls for building it as early as 2011less than 10 years from nowand by 2022 at the runway,

Coeur dAlene Mines Corp. says it has acquired exploration and mining rights to a large area adjacent to a property in Bolivia where its evaluating building a silver mine.The Coeur dAlene-based company announced in its second-quarter report

The franchisee for Applebees Neighborhood Grill restaurants in a territory that includes Spokane is seeking land near the North Division Y for its third Applebees restaurant here.The Atlanta-based Restaurant Concepts wants to lease land

Seattle-based Safeco Corp. says it plans to cut a net of 65 jobs in Spokane as part of a companywide restructuring. Returning to profitability is the main objective, says Dan Antonietti, assistant vice president of human resources in Spokane

Medinex Systems Inc., an Internet company that recently moved to Coeur dAlene from Post Falls, has announced a second-quarter net loss of $1.4 million, or 12 cents a share, an improvement over the $7.2 million loss it posted in the year-earlier a

After a brief bidding war, Texas real estate investor James F. Cotter has bought the Old City Hall building in downtown Spokane for $7 million, or $115,000 more than the asking price.Dave Black, CEO of Spokane-based Tomlinson Black Commercial it

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, has returned to profitabilityat least on paperfollowing a business downturn that led to several consecutive quarters of financial losses, extensive job cuts, other cost-slashing measures, and

A young, Pennsylvania-based biotechnology company named MatriCal Inc. says it has all but decided to move to Spokane, probably by the end of this year.The company, which is located just outside of Philadelphia but also has small manufacturing in

At whats about to become Spokanes newest day-care center, youll find some common things: lots of toys, a special time-out area, and a mandatory naptime. Whats uncommon about this center, however, is who will playing, misbehaving, and of all