if it weren't for Expo '74, Doug Toone may have never opened what has become the Jewelry Design Center at 821 N. Division in Spokane. In those days, Toone was working for Jewelry By Michaels, a local wholesale jeweler, and Expo needed a jeweler to

Using some seed money donated by Intermountain Community Bank, Gonzaga University says its School of Business Administration plans to launch a for-credit class this fall that will have students leaving campus to work closely with Spokane-area businesses a

ClearRF LLC, the 4-year-old Spokane Valley-based maker of wireless signal amplifiers, is leaving the consumer market and plans to focus fully on what's called the machine-to-machine, or m2m, sector. The move is intended to enable the company to purs

Longtime Spokane accounting practice McDirmid, Mikkelsen & Secrest PS says it will merge next month with big Midwest-based firm Eide Bailly LLC. McDirmid, Mikkelsen & Secrest, will take on the name of the larger firm. Andrew McDirmid, a partner here, s

While Seattle and a few other West Side cities are bearing much of the load for Washington state's recent ranking by the League of American Bicyclists as the most bicycle-friendly state in the country, efforts are under way here to ensure Spokane can ca

With the release of the Washington State Liquor Control Board's marijuana retailer lottery results earlier this month, retail marijuana operations are moving forward; however, it appears that growers may not be able to keep up. The agency is anticipa

Advanced Concepts in Man-ufacturing LLC, a young Spokane Valley manufacturing equipment service and supply company, has grown fourfold since its first year of operation and expects that growth to continue as the economy improves, says Eric Wellington, vic