During part of the keynote address at Greater Spokane Incorporated's Manufacturing Expo earlier this month, Pearson Packaging Systems Inc. CEO Michael Senske mentioned Spokane's quality of life as one of the Inland Northwest's positive attributes.

Two Inland Northwest tourism services are sharing resources in a joint effort to provide unique travel opportunities to visitors to the region.Framework LLC, which does business as Framework Meetings & Destinations, and ROW Inc., doing business

Altek Inc., a Liberty Lake-base contract manufacturer and plastic injection molding company, says it has invested in and started using a new custom automation program at its facility that the company claims will improve accuracy of its computerized

Zip's Trent LLC, of Spokane Valley, is building a 50-seat, 1,900-square-foot Zip's Drive-In restaurant at the northwest corner of Trent Avenue and Avalon Road, a block west of Evergreen Road.Chad Fowler, who is co-owner of the planned restaurant

Magnuson Hotels, a hotel group that offers reservation and property management services with headquarters in Spokane and London, says it has signed licensing contracts with five former Best Western hotels that have converted to the Magnuson says in

The Arc of Spokane, a nonprofit that has been based for the last two years in the former Inland Power & Light Co. building, at 320 E. Second, has bought an adjacent building occupied partly by Horizon Credit Union, says Greg Falk, Arc's executive a

Liberty Lake-based PC Open Inc., a maker of digital video recorders and surveillance equipment doing business as OpenEye, says California-based CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc. is rolling out its products in 900 Carl's Jr. and Hardee's eateries is 80