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Fatbeam wins fiber jobs with two school districts

Coeur d'Alene company also draws FCC praise

April 23, 2015

Fatbeam LLC, a fiber-optic broadband provider based in Coeur d'Alene, says it has secured contracts with school districts in Pasco, Wash., and Bend, Ore. The company says in a press release that it will install a total of 58 miles of fiber to upgrade t

KHQ inks partnership with national Watchup news app

Move could help station reach younger viewers

April 23, 2015

KHQ Inc., the Spokane-based NBC television affiliate, says it has partnered with the Watchup video news streaming mobile application so that viewers can watch its programs through the app. Watchup is a free video news streaming app that enables users to

Inland Northwest public companies lag behind S&P 500

Index dips in first three months

April 23, 2015

Judith Spitzer

Hart Capital Management Inc., a Spokane-based investment firm, says the combined stock value of 11 publicly traded companies in the Inland Northwest, as measured in an overall index it compiles, fell 3.4 percent in the first quarter of 2015, compared with

Michael Maehl: Don't start with numbers with planning retirement

Look first at latter-years lifestyle, then pencil it out

April 23, 2015

Michael Maehl

It's been my experience over my career that people often will spend more time and effort planning for their annual two-week vacation than they will a 30-plus year retirement. My goal with this article is to help you consider parts of the proverbial bigg

Aspen Homes erects new office building at Riverstone

Builder, labor specialists develop $1 million facility

April 23, 2015

Mike McLean

Longtime Coeur d'Alene homebuilder Aspen Homes & Development LLC is constructing a new $1 million office building near the Spokane River in the Riverstone development, says Tom Stam, an Aspen Homes principal. Aspen Homes is acting as its own contractor

Cheney credit union's membership rises after charter change

Its ranks have ballooned by 600 over last two years

April 23, 2015

Judith Spitzer

Cheney Federal Credit Union has added 600 members to its field of membership since April, 2013 when its charter was expanded to include anyone who lives within the Cheney and Medical Lake school districts, which includes Airway Heights, says JoAn Sanders,

Red Lion Hotels adds two properties to its franchise network

Former Spokane House hotel to reopen in June

April 23, 2015

Mike McLean

Spokane-based Red Lion Hotels Corp. has signed franchise agreements with the owner of two hotels, one in Spokane and another in Sacramento, Calif. The Spokane property is the former Spokane House Hotel, located at 4301 W. Sunset Blvd., says Pam Scott, RL

U.S. Bank invests in training its private bankers

Educational focus seen as benefit to customers

April 23, 2015

U.S. Bank's private banking department is providing enhanced educational support for its financial representatives, including here, that it believes will enable them to better serve its larger-balance customers.

Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center plans $3.5 million building

New facility would replace South Sherman structure

April 23, 2015

Judith Spitzer

The Spokane-based Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center plans to develop a new $3.5 million facility to replace the current building located at 855 S. Sherman, says Freda Gandy, the center's director. Coeur d'Alene-based Watson & Herres LLC

Craft3 opens Spokane office

Nontraditional lender now has operations in seven Northwest cities

April 23, 2015

Judith Spitzer

Craft3, a nonprofit lender based in the southwestern Washington city of Ilwaco, has opened a Spokane office in the Peyton Building, at 10 N. Post downtown, says Susan Doll, Craft3's senior business lender here.