There is a new machine being tested in Montana which could decontaminate toxic mine tailings while recovering valuable precious minerals for everyday use. Gold, silver, and other metals are essential for our cellphones, computers, and electronic device

Spokane voters soon will be confronted with a ballot measure that if approved, would direct the city to restrict oil and coal shipments by rail through the city of Spokane, putting the city in the center of a costly legal battle that it can't win. Vote

Hayden-based glass-repair business Grizzly Glass Centers Inc. plans to move next month to larger quarters in the Warren K Industrial Park, where the company is developing its new, $1 million headquarters building. Owner Steve Wright says the building wil

Inland Northwest Partners, a community economic development and educational nonprofit based in Liberty Lake, has won a two-year, $142,000 contract with the Washington state Department of Commerce for business startup assistance in Whitman and Asotin count

The Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery, a Spokane-based nonprofit that provides short-term, 24-hour care for children in crisis situations, recently paid $1.3 million for a building and site on East Sprague Avenue, on which it hopes eventually to build a larger

From a company that manufactures tidy portable toilets to one that produces high-quality microbiology media plates, Ignite Northwest, now assisting its fifth class, continues a trend of training a diverse group of companies. 'We're very excited to we

Spokane real estate development company Black Realty Inc. is planning a residential development with 580 planned living units at the former Painted Hills Golf Course site at 4403 S. Dishman–Mica Road. Bryan Walker, development project manager with Blac

West Star Industries, a Hayden-based maker of commercial stainless steel food-service products and equipment, plans to build a $5.6 million manufacturing plant in Hayden, a building permit application on file with the North Idaho city shows. Michelle Foc

Canada-based HiTest Sand Inc. has bought 186 acres of land south of Newport, Wash., and started the application process for necessary permits to build a $325 million silicon smelter there, says Gregg Dohrn, who's working as the HiTest project manager fo