Last year, Spokane-based RAHCO International went for months without finding a single qualified engineering candidate to hire. It finally recruited one from South Africa. Spokane headhunter Jeannine Marx, who typically has sought seasoned for is

Broadway Group, a Spokane-based company that owns a chain of truck stops and smaller fuel stop-convenience store outlets as well as other properties, is getting ready to expand again.It expects shortly to buy a truck stop, casino, motel, and at

Louisiana-Pacific Corp.s 33-acre former mill site in Post Falls failed to sell at auction recently, and the property remains for sale, says Tim Reinertsen, senior vice president of Realty Marketing/Northwest, of Portland, which held the auction a

Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc., an Auburn, Wash.-based trucking company that has operated a terminal here but used the services of another company to make its Spokane-Coeur dAlene area deliveries, now has decided to handle those deliveries of that

Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. plans to go ahead with a $10 million project at its Mead Works aluminum smelter that it put on hold indefinitely a year ago.Susan Ashe, Kaisers spokeswoman here, says the project includes rebuilding an older at

Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital, both under the umbrella of Spokane-based Providence Services, are seeking state permission to open a 25-bed transitional-care unit at Holy Family.Holy Family is proposing to spend about $1.2

For the second time this year, the owner of the big Spokane Business & Industrial Park has announced plans for more development, this time to the north of the developed part of the park.The owner, Spokane-based Crown West Realty LLC, says it to

Discussions of how to rebuild crumbling roads and bridges, improve the transportation of freight around the state, and ease traffic congestion are expected to dominate the Washington Legislatures 1998 session.Business groups say they will push

The Spokane-area office market has tightened dramatically, especially downtown, and is expected to remain tight through next year, say executives at two of Spokanes largest commercial real estate companies.As a result, businesses that are to &

Sacred Heart Medical Center, St. Marys Hospital in Walla Walla, and the network that operates Holy Family Hospital and three smaller hospitals north of Spokane are closer to joining into a single integrated network after six months of the to