North Spokane neighborhood restaurant The Downriver Grill LLC recently saw the finishing touches completed on a $100,000 renovation that was done in part to celebrate its ninth anniversary of being in business. Located at 3315 W. Northwest the a

Sumner, Wash.-based wholesale food distributor Northern Sales Company Inc. has moved its Spokane-area facility into larger quarters in Spokane Valley from a temporary facility in Airway Heights.Shaun Collins, a Spokane-based territorial sales is

A Spokane real estate investment group has bought the longtime restaurant site last occupied by Lefty's Steakhouse & Sports, at 3525 N. Division, and has razed the building to prepare the property for resale or redevelopment, says Marshall Clark, a

Liberty Lake-based Itron Inc., the big maker of energy-management equipment and systems, recently signed a contract with the Algerian National Company of Measurement and Control Instruments (ENAMC) to provide a large-scale commercial and industrial

A Spokane entrepreneur is starting up a Web-based company designed to connect businesses with freelance salespeople.Through the service, named SalesCreed.com, salespeople post their resumes, and businesses post sales projects on the company's to

Letting autoworkers sit while they reach into a car's interior could help prevent shoulder and back strain, but another solution might be to tilt the entire car so that workers can stand up.That's the finding of two recent studies, which tested

More than 30 leaders representing a broad cross-section of the materials and manufacturing industries are the initial signatories to a newly developed set of principles designed to provide guidance on pursuing collaborative efforts to accelerate by