Red Robin International Inc., which operates the Colorado-based Red Robin Gourmet Burgers & Spirits Emporium restaurant chain, and Starbucks Corp., the Seattle-based coffee company, plan to open stores in downtown Spokane, across the street from of

Its said that even the best day working cant measure up to the worst day spent fishing or golfing, but Jeri Arnold spends her workdays surrounded by items that capture the fun of these two popular sporting pastimes.She and her husband, radio

Spokane-based Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. has snared a large new corporate tenant for its Liberty Lake Center, located just south of Interstate 90 and east of the Liberty Lake interchange.Bergen Brunswig Medical Corp., which operates

Hewlett-Packard Co., the big Palo Alto, Calif.-based electronics manufacturer, plans to consolidate in Spokane a portion of a printed-circuit assembly division it operates in Loveland, Colo., in a move thats expected to boost a similar operation

In just five weeks, a Dallas-based health-care provider called Matrix Rehabilitation Inc. quietly has become a force in the Spokane physical therapy market. In that time, it has bought one physical therapy business here, started up five of a

Malt-O-Meal, the Minneapolis-based company that makes cereals such as Marshmallow Mateys, Coco Roos, and Toasty Os, is negotiating to open a large distribution facility in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park.Were working to put a

Cogentrix Energy Inc., a Charlotte, N.C.-based power producer, has bought about 107 acres in Rathdrum, Idaho, where it plans to build a $100 million electricity-generating plant. If it can arrange the necessary financing, the company hopes to

Empire Securities Inc. of Washington has signed a consent order issued by state securities investigators that allows the troubled Spokane brokerage firm to remain open but on a short regulatory leash. Also, four of Empires employees or a