Retool your skills, retrain for a new careerin a fat economy, these are the kinds of slogans you see on matchbook covers and bus-stop benches, and its advice thats widely ignored.Why retrain when jobs are easy to come by? With the and

Lenders say home-loan refinancing activity has begun building toward a crescendo in recent weeks following yet another dip in mortgage-loan interest rates.With lower rates, more people have inquired about reworking home loans to lower their and

Sharp Shooting Indoor Range & Gun Shop Inc., of Spokane, faces foreclosure by a Texas company after defaulting on a loan that originally was guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration. According to a foreclosure action filed in Court

Tom Addis, who owns two auto dealerships in Coeur dAlene, is buying Jackson Motors Inc., a longtime Ford dealership in Newport, Wash., and will move that dealership to a new location there. Addis company, Tom Addis Automotive Group, expects

Output Technology Corp., a manufacturer of high-speed computer printers here, plans to move into a 20,000-square-foot space at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, in the Spokane Valley.Crown West Realty LLC, the Spokane company that owns and

The city of Cheney expects early next month to hire a contractor to design the backbone of a high-capacity fiber-optic network that eventually could bring broadband computer and telecommunications lines to its 4,000 utility customers, including

CXT Inc., the Spokane Valley manufacturer of concrete railroad ties and prefabricated concrete buildings, has posted signs at its administrative office building and a nearby building identified as a concrete crossing-panel production plant offering

Coeur dAlene Mines Corp. is fighting back against a flagging metals market by spinning off its environmental and governmental relations operation into a subsidiary that will do consulting work for the Coeur dAlene-based mining company, its and

The man behind the Spokane-area company that seemingly could never stumble but did this year, told business leaders here last week that for the first time in his life, there were mornings in recent months when he curled up in bed and dreaded going

One day a few years back, Sheri Herberholz waited for her husband, Larry, and oldest son, Dana, to come home with the familys first real race car. The two returned with a flatbed trailer carrying car-body parts. It didnt exactly rev her tells a