Late last year, Spokane-based Merck Familys Old World Christmas designed a champagne bottle-shaped Christmas ornament with fin de siecleend of the centuryon the label and a glittery year 2000 emblazoned across the front.Since then,

New Light Industries Ltd., an 8-year-old West Plains company that develops holography equipment, says it might be just a year or two away from completing development of a device that could be used to produce holographic portraits of people for and

When the Washington Legislature convenes next month, it will face a large elephant in a small room.Thats the analogy Richard Davis, president of the Washington Research Council, a Seattle-based public policy think tank, uses to describe how of

Screaming Mouse is scurrying into the future of high-tech marketing.The young Spokane software company debuted its softwarewhich uses attention-getting sound and music to bolster marketing efforts on web sitesin early November via a web site

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After five years as an exploration company, Yamana Resources Inc. has decided to develop its first mine next year and hopes to begin producing silver at that Argentinian property by first quarter of 2001.The shift from mining exploration company

Divine Corp., of Spokane, plans to open a gas station-convenience store next month at the northwest corner of Mission Avenue and Greene Street, near Spokane Community College.The outlet would be the companys ninth in the Spokane area, counting

Washington Trust Bank, of Spokane, is expanding its express bank branch at the northwest corner of Southeast Boulevard and 29th Avenue on Spokanes South Hill into a full-service branch.Lea Werner, the banks spokeswoman, says Washington Trust

Sprague & Custer LLC, of Spokane, is developing a retail complex that will house a Schucks Auto Parts store, as well as several other tenants.The complex, which is to be called the East Sprague Retail Center, is being built on 3.5 acres of at