Panera Bread, a Kirkwood, Mo.-based bakery chain, is preparing to open a restaurant in Spokane Valley that will be its first in Eastern Washington. Attempts to reach a Panera Bread representative were unsuccessful.

Eastern Washington University has opened a new recycling center that it hopes will help it advance its recycling efforts.

Signs, signs, everywhere a sign. Like the 1971 hit by the Five Man Electrical Band, signs are everywhere and everything for Liberty Lake-based Mountain Dog Sign Co. and wife-and-husband owners Marshon and Steve Kempf, who will celebrate five years in busi

Over the last several years, Nadine Sullivan and her brother Bruce Gage have narrowed the focus of Eco Depot Inc.'s environmentally friendly building products to concentrate mostly on selling and installing solar-electric systems.

Bondgy Inc., the Spokane-based maker of pet owner-pet communication device iCPooch, plans next month to roll out a new product, called iCLovedOnes, for human interaction. Brooke Martin, a Ferris High School sophomore who invented both devices and whose

Stay Alfred, a three-year old company based here that rents out downtown vacation properties in large cities, may be one of the fastest growing Spokane companies that nobody has heard of, asserts Skyler Reep, company spokesman. Headquartered in almost

Sandpoint's diverse and growing employment base is helping offset last year's loss of major employer Coldwater Creek, several business representatives and observers there say. Companies representing software, aerospace, biomedical, and manufacturing

Spokane Industries Inc., the longtime castings and metal fabricated product manufacturer here, says it's experiencing mostly steady sales growth companywide and finding encouraging market expansion opportunities in its custom stainless steel fabrication