Competition in the automotive sport-utility market continues to rev up, as at least 11 new SUVs will drive onto the playing field for the 2003 model year, along with a host of new midsize sedans and high-performance sports cars.From the sporty

A coalition of alternative-fuel advocates that last year proposed constructing a biodiesel-fuel manufacturing complex here now is envisioning a larger facility and is launching an effort to find ways to make the development feasible.The which a

Lifestream Technologies Inc.s auditing firm recently expressed substantial doubt as to the Post Falls companys ability to continue as a going concern, based on its operating losses and slim revenues. The auditor, BDO Seidman LLPs says

Kaiser Aluminum Corp. faces a Feb. 1 deadline to begin paying early-retirement benefits to up to 300 members of the United Steelworks union here, but a union official says hes not holding his breath thatll happen. Jan. 31st is three or it

Odom Northwest Beverage Spokane has bought another beer-and-wine wholesaler here and separately has acquired the Spokane-area distribution rights to Coors beer from another company. Odom Northwest, a division of Seattle-based Odom Corp., last a

James F. Cotter, a San Antonio businessman with sizable investments in the Spokane office market, has bought the nine-story QualMed Plaza on Spokanes lower South Hill for $3.4 million.The building is located at the northwest corner of Sixth a

Spokanes two biggest hospitals, already straining under the yoke of higher malpractice-insurance premiums, have been hit with another unforeseen cost: The state earlier this year stopped paying them a customary bonus for treating severely injured

Some auto dealerships here are experiencing record sales so far this year, due partly to manufacturers incentives such as 0 percent financing and large rebates, while other dealers are seeing little change over last years numbers, a spot check up

In 1970, Tom Askman got an incredible urge to create a sculpture, even though the painter and art instructor hadnt done any sculpting before. I decided I wanted to do it back in Wyoming, where he had been raised, Askman now says. I

A public hearing has been set for April in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions investigation of possible misconduct by Avista Corp., Avista Energy Inc., and two affiliates of Enron Corp., and an initial decision in the case could come next