Sonderen Packaging Inc., a longtime Spokane paperboard carton maker, is acquiring new equipment to increase its capabilities and is asking a state agency to issue up to $7 million in bonds to help finance the cost of the machinery. The agency, the Washin

A $26 million fly-in community at Sandpoint that the developer, SilverWing at Sandpoint LLC, characterized two years ago as ready for takeoff, hasn't lifted off the ground since then-and currently is sputtering in litigation. A lawsuit filed by Silv

Clarence 'Cip” Paulsen III, of Spokane, says he plans to convert the former Costco building at 800 E. Third, east of downtown Spokane, into a 131,500-square-foot marijuana growing and processing facility. Paulsen says he and business partner Brian Mu

As golf courses here open and prepare for the 2014 season, all eyes appear to be on the weather and the economy, Spokane city and county representatives and course professionals here say. Ross Kelley, chairman of the city of Spokane Park Board's golf

Next IT Corp., Spokane's virtual intelligence assistant software company, has added eight new clients to its roster and expects to increase its revenues by 50 percent this year after doubling its annual income in 2013, says Mitch Lawrence, executive vic

Kootenai County is gaining momentum in most sectors of the construction industry. In 2013, construction volume in unincorporated Kootenai County and its three largest cities-Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, and Hayden-totaled $337 million, an astounding

More than $140 million in new and continuing transportation-related construction projects are slated for 2014 across Spokane County, roughly on par with last year, including continuing work on the North Spokane Corridor, multiple bridge projects, and asso