The Kalispel Tribe of Indians expects by early April to select a contractor to design and build a $714,000 visitor center and rest stop for travelers along State Route 20, just north of the city of Cusick, Wash., about 50 miles north of tribe has a

Kaizen Assembly LLC, a Bellingham, Wash.-based lean-manufacturing consulting, training, and engineering firm, says it plans to expand in Spokane this year.The company's services include assessments to identify potential applications of concepts,

Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank's Northeast Washington regional headquarters, located in the U.S. Bank Building at 428 W. Riverside in downtown Spokane, are in the midst of an extensive $750,000 remodel, says Linda Elkin, its regional says U.S. Bank's

Itron Inc., the big Liberty Lake-based maker of energy-management equipment and systems, has announced two new international projects to install utility metering networks in Australia and Azerbaijan.One of those projects, in the Eurasian country

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, posted net margins of more than $5.8 million last year, up sharply from $3.6 million in 2010, but it says part of that gain was due to a one-time benefit."Bonneville (Power the us