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Revett Minerals posts 2011 earnings jump

Revett's record production at Troy mine boosts total; second site claims grow

April 12, 2012

Spokane Valley-based mining company Revett Minerals Inc. has reported net income of $13.5 million, or 36 cents a share, for 2011, a significant jump from the prior year, when it posted a net loss of $600,000, or 2 cents a share. Revett the big &

Larry H. Miller group buys Spokane Valley Hyundai dealership

New manager expects to expand showroom, increase staffing level

April 12, 2012

Mike McLean

Utah-based auto group Larry H. Miller Corp. has bought the former Hallmark Hyundai dealership, its fourth Spokane-area acquisition.The dealership, located at 8801 E. Sprague in Spokane Valley and now named Larry H. Miller Hyundai Spokane, 26 of

Effort led by Visit Spokane asks why visitors come here

Effort led by Visit Spokane aims to use data collected to focus tourism marketing

April 12, 2012

Chey Scott

For much of the past year, Visit Spokane, the regional convention and visitors bureau, and several partnering organizations have been involved in an ongoing study to determine what specifically draws visitors to the Inland Northwest.Jeanna vice

Walker's Furniture to expand into Oregon with five stores

Furniture retailer strikes deal to take spaces where five Wilcox stores operate

April 12, 2012

Treva Lind

Spokane Valley-based Walker's Furniture Inc. has agreed to take over five stores in northeast Oregon by August, following the retirement of principals who own and plan to close their Hermiston, Ore.-based family business, called Wilcox Furniture in

Spokane Realtors to tweak new-home search in MLS

Inventory lists 414 houses with almost half unbuilt

April 12, 2012

Treva Lind

While Spokane County appears in this area's Multiple Listing Service to have a sizable number of newly constructed, single-family houses for sale, nearly half aren't built and fall into a category the real estate industry calls ghost listings.As

WSU housing project on Jensen-Byrd site could be delayed a year

Developers 'on the cusp' of pushing construction back a year

April 12, 2012

Mike McLean

Development companies that have started the permitting process to raze the former Jensen-Byrd building on Washington State University Spokane's Riverpoint Campus and replace it with an apartment structure are close to pushing the construction back

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April 12, 2012

April 6 / City launches certified-sites programThe city of Spokane launched a new program called "Certified Sites" that it said will provide business owners an easy way to obtain information about commercial and industrial sites that are ready a

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April 12, 2012

Meetings & EventsGreater Spokane Incorporated will hold Good Morning Greater Spokane on Friday, April 13, from 7 to 9 a.m. at the DoubleTree Hotel Spokane City Center, 322 N. Spokane Falls Court. Chris Rivera, president of the Washington & will

Wheatland beefs up security

March 29, 2012

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, says it has entered into a partnership with Sunnyvale, Calif.-based IronKey Inc. that will enable it to provide added protection to its business customers and safeguard their accounts from financial malware attacks.It

Bank profits grew late last year, FDIC says

Earnings have increased for 10 straight quarters; loan-loss provisions drop

March 29, 2012

Commercial banks and savings institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported an aggregate profit of $26.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, a $4.9 billion improvement from the $21.4 billion in net income the industry in of