Avaya Inc., an $8.3-billion-a-year subsidiary of Lucent Technologies, will open a corporate sales office in the Spokane Valley, a company spokeswoman says.Mary Thiele, of Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Avaya (pronounced uh-VY-uh), says the company to

Three top executives have left or are leaving Rosauers Supermarkets Inc. following the companys acquisition by URM Stores Inc. this summer.In addition, Spokane-based Rosauers is closing its sole Coeur dAlene location, saying that outlet has

In an aggressive new public-private partnership, a Spokane biotechnology company has joined with a Lolo, Mont., biotech manufacturer and the University of Idaho to launch a venture that expects to commercialize an innovative method for extracting U

William Schara doesnt merely crunch numbers for a living. Hell help you crunch your personal budget numbers, too, so youll know precisely when youve blown your entertainment budget or need to hold off on a clothing purchase.The Spokane a

ICT Group Inc., of Langhorne, Pa., is said to be planning a call center in the University City Shopping Center here that will employ 650 people eventually.The company, a publicly traded customer-service and call-center operation, has leased feet

Big plans are in the works that could spur revitalization at the east end of downtown Spokane, but developers have led a resurgence on their own in recent months with a passel of smaller projects.A handful of companies and businessmen have old a

The Spokane-area economy has been adding jobs at a much faster pace so far this year than it did during 1999.Through the first half of the year, an average of nearly 4,000 more people were employed here than in the year-earlier months, according

Agilent Technologies Inc. recently installed a fourth modular office building on its Liberty Lake campus, and will move workers into that structure next month.The modular office gives Agilent an additional 25,600 square feet of space at its Lake

Spokane developer Harlan Douglass and his wife, Maxine, are suing LeMaster & Daniels PLLC, also of Spokane, for allegedly making a mistake on their income-tax returns that the Douglasses claim cost them $1.1 million in taxes and fines.LeMaster &

Two Spokane investors, Dan McKinney and Bill Main Jr., have bought the former Spokane Police Guild Club near the Spokane County Courthouse, have converted it for office use, and have formed tentative plans to develop a larger office park who owns a