San Diego-based Leap Wireless International Inc. has acquired a personal communications services (PCS) license from the Federal Communications Commission to offer digital wireless communications service in Spokane and will do so through its Cricket

Safeway Stores Inc., of Pleasanton, Calif., has agreed to lease a proposed supermarket space at a planned $9 million retail center in the Hillyard area of northeast Spokaneand close a nearby store, developer Jim Gallaugher says.Gallaugher, who

A recent surge in the price of gold has renewed Inland Northwest mining companies interest in digging the yellow metal out of the ground.Gold, which had fallen as low as $252.85 per troy ounce on the London gold exchange as recently as Aug. as

Jackson Five LLC, a company established by Spokane businessmen Steve Schmautz and Bill Lawson, has bought just over five acres of land at Liberty Lake Center and plans to construct two office buildings there worth a combined $6 million. The is &

Great Northern Financial Services Inc., a young Spokane company that sells financial products as an agent for others, has opened four offices so far this year, is planning to open an office in Boise next week, and is eyeing an expansion into next a

By day, Hands On Hobbies is a typical hobby store, selling model cars and airplanes, trains and train-set pieces, collectible card games, model rockets, hobby paint, science kits, stamp- and coin-collecting paraphernalia, and paint-by-number night

Spokane United Methodist Homes, a Spokane nonprofit corporation that oversees two big retirement communities here, has asked the Washington state Housing Finance Commission to issue $28.5 million in tax-exempt bonds to finance two construction and

Spokane surgeon Dr. Robert Golden has begun performing a minimally invasive, laparoscopic kidney-removal procedure here that allows living kidney donors to recover in much less time than typically has been required after conventional has performed

Greg Jeffreys, who began framing houses here at a young age, enjoyed the work so much that he had started his own subcontracting company by the time he graduated from University High School in 1978. He never dreamed, though, that his passion for 40

State National Bank, of Garfield, Wash., plans to open a second branch office in Spokane early next year and will move some of its administrative functions there from Garfield.Stan Yarbrough, State Nationals chief financial officer, declines a