Honeywell Electronic Materials Interconnect Metals, a strategic business unit of Honeywell here that formerly was owned by Johnson Matthey Electronics, is planning to release two new products this summer that are expected to boost employment at the

Eldon and Becky Humphrey say their occupation often is the brunt of jokes and is a favorite Hollywood stereotype, but they fail to see the humor. They take their jobs very seriously.No, the Humphreys arent attorneys or members of some other of

COEUR DALENESpokane developer John Stone unveiled detailed plans last week for turning 73 acres of vacant land along Northwest Boulevard here into a $200 million mixed-use development.The project, called Riverstone, envisions 42 lots for of

Spokane City Councilman Steve Eugster says he has halted efforts to investigate what the city can do to assist in the redevelopment of the Davenport Hotel, after being criticized for his efforts and asked by an attorney for the hotels owner to to

The city of Coeur dAlene is in the process of hiring an architect to design a $1 million expansion and renovation of its City Hall. The project will add about 20 percent more space to the 20,800-square-foot building, which is located at 710 of

Harbor Resorts LLC, the Seattle company that bought the Schweitzer Mountain ski area last winter, plans to build 400 condominium units and some 45,000 square feet of commercial space in the ski resorts village over the next five to seven years. a

Spokane developer Dick Vandervert says he is talking with 24 Hour Fitness, the big Pleasanton, Calif.-based fitness-club chain, about building an exercise facility for the chain on land behind the Northpointe Plaza shopping center on Spokanes an

The number of foreclosures in Spokane County last year jumped for the fourth straight year and exceeded 800 for the first time since an extended real estate slump in the late 1980s.Kootenai County saw an increase for a third straight year and,

Ashley Gardens Management Inc., of Issaquah, Wash., is building a 20-bed facility for victims of Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia about a block east of Mead High School, and expects to break ground this spring on another facility

Merrily Bjerkestrand sips soup silently. She cuts her salad greens into petite portions and tears off bite-sized bits of a breadstick with her fingers instead of her teeth. Across from her, I put my elbows on the table faster than you can spell