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Ohmygaia LLC: A natural solution to sweat

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March 30, 2017

It's good to press hard in a race running toward the finish line, but one Coeur d'Alene woman wanted to get to that point with a little less perspiration. A runner of marathons, Wendy Harris heard the same complaint from other female distance runners

Interstate Concrete secures site in Colville

Company, Knife River have asset exchange

March 30, 2017

Rathdrum-based Interstate Concrete & Asphalt Co. says it has acquired a new location in Colville as part of what it calls 'an exchange of assetsâ€ with Knife River Corp. The Colville site becomes Interstate Concrete's second location in Eastern Wash

Firehouse Subs to enter Spokane market

Sandwich restaurant slates early June opening

March 30, 2017

Mike McLean

Firehouse Subs, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based restaurant chain, plans to open a restaurant in the Northgate Center retail complex, at 7808 N. Division, says Natasha Wojcik, a company spokeswoman. The 2,100-square-foot restaurant, to be located at the southe

ICM Asset Management partners go separate directions as rumors swirl

Ex-employees have formed new financial advisory firm

March 30, 2017

A split between two former partners at a longtime, Spokane-based investment firm has led to the creation of a new firm here, with the previous company continuing to maintain $145 million in client investments under management. Jim Simmons, CEO of 35-year

Software dealer expands to West Side

PF-based company also serves Oregon educators

March 30, 2017

Mike McLean

Quest Integration Inc., a Post Falls-based specialty manufacturing-design software seller and support provider, has expanded into Western Washington with a new office in West Seattle, says Chantel Wilkes, a Quest spokeswoman. The new office adds to Quest

Monroe Street temporary striping still being mulled

City officials weighing costs, await more input

March 30, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

The city of Spokane hasn't decided yet whether to give neighborhood residents and business owners a chance to test lane reductions that would result as part of a controversial planned North Monroe Corridor improvement project. Marlene Feist, city of S

Fairchild Air Force Base receives third tanker squadron

Base on West Plains now hosts 44 aircraft in total

March 30, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Fairchild Air Force Base has added a third squadron to its ranks, with the relocation of the 384th Air Refueling Squadron there this month. Previously located at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas for the past 43 years, the 384th Air Refueling Squadron

Egnyte Inc. sets growth plan in motion with move

Tech company to occupy top floors of Luigi's building

March 30, 2017

With an immediate eye toward expansion, Egnyte Inc., which bills itself as a hybrid, cloud-based file sharing company with an office located in the Spokane Valley, will move that office to downtown Spokane at the beginning of April to better accommodate e

Downtown Cd'A structure to be converted into hotel

Project involves rebuilding level lost to fire years ago

March 30, 2017

Mike McLean

New owners of a downtown Coeur d'Alene retail and office building known as the Dingle Building plan to convert and expand the structure into a boutique hotel to be named CDA Grand Hotel, planning information on file with the city of Coeur d'Alene show

Spokane Transit Authority projects set to begin soon

Consultants review the Central City Line

March 30, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Spokane Transit Authority has big plans ahead, as it begins some of the first projects from its 10-year-long Moving Forward plan this spring. In last November's general election, voters approved STA's Proposition 1 to fund 25 projects designed to mai