Spokane Countys Utilities Division is studying options to meet the countys wastewater-treatment needs through the year 2020options that include building at least one major new treatment plant here, at a potential cost of as much as $110 or up

Spokanes long-humming cadre of engine rebuilders apparently have weathered a national upheaval in their industry, and together still employ about 250 people here and remanufacture more than 2,700 vehicle engines a month.Such companies, which a

A broad-based group of Spokane businesspeople and civic leaders headed by Biomedex Inc. President George Coleman and Avista Corp. executive Pete Kerwien has begun putting together what is envisioned to be a several-hundred-acre technology park near

Avista Laboratories Inc., Avista Corp.s Spokane-based technology-development company thats commonly referred to as Avista Labs, plans to move its operations into a former Itron Inc. office-and-manufacturing building in the Spokane Business & in

After a somewhat tumultuous start here, the Spokane operation of Paris-based Alcatel S.A. has secured its role within that multi-billion-dollar company and apparently, for some time to come, its future in Spokane.When Alcatel acquired Packet in

A shift in the supply and demand for workers has forced staffing agencies here and elsewhere to alter the way they do business.Through the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, many agencies prospered mainly by supplying temporary or contract whom a

Empire Health Services plans in February to launch an $18 million expansion project at its Deaconess Medical Center complex.In the project, four stories that will contain about 88,000 square feet of medical office space will be added atop the &

Empire Health Services plans in February to launch an $18 million expansion project at its Deaconess Medical Center complex.In the project, four stories that will contain about 88,000 square feet of medical office space will be added atop the &

Four Spokane-area colleges are studying the possibility of developing jointly an institute that would collect and analyze economic data for the Spokane area and use that data to provide research for and to advise leaders on public policy committee

Target Stores Inc., the big Minneapolis-based discount retail chain, plans to begin renovating its store in the Northpointe Shopping Center on Spokanes North Side in mid-January.The remodeling work will involve reconfiguring the interior space