Scafco Corp., which operates two Spokane-area manufacturing facilities, is seeking a building permit to construct a new $5.7 million steel stud manufacturing plant at the former site of the Playfair horse racing track in East Spokane, plans under a

Driving through Spokane on the city's main arterials, it's not difficult to notice the deliberate, spray-painted scribbles and markings of illegal graffiti on buildings, signs, light posts, overpasses, and even in some residential Spokane-area and

Aero-Flite Inc., a Kingman, Ariz.-based company that recently garnered a big contract to help provide the U.S. Forest Service with next-generation air tankers for wildfire suppression, plans to establish operations at Spokane International Spokane

As the domestic aerospace-manufacturing sector continues to grow, Spokane Valley-based soldering equipment maker RPS Automation LLC is seeing its sales shoot upward and is attributing much of that increase to aerospace-related fabrication.RPS in

Aerospace Initiative for Recruitment Spokane expects to complete several steps this summer to make a 300-acre site near Spokane International Airport "shovel-ready" for Boeing Co. or another major aerospace company. Such a company potentially a

A Washington state training initiative that aims to sustain and enhance aerospace manufacturing skills has launched an apprenticeship program here, which it plans to expand, says the Spokane Valley-based Eastern Washington program coordinator. a