A renovated, but mostly vacant 24,000-square-foot retail center at the northwest corner of the busy Sprague Avenue-Freya Street intersection has been sold to Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based American Marine Bank at a trustee's auction here for the a

Litehouse Foods Inc., the longtime Sandpoint salad dressing maker, recently launched a new line of varietal apple cider blends that it says marks an expansion by the company in a new direction. Paul Kuschke, Litehouse's director of marketing and

Two businessmen say they plan to open a franchise in Spokane Valley of HiLine Homes, which builds conventionally constructed homes "on your site", to serve the Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, and Sandpoint areas.HiLine Homes, based in Puyallup, Wash.,

Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, says it will open an office in the Tri-Cities area of Central Washington Dec. 1.The new office will be in south Richland near the Columbia Point Golf Course, about 150 miles southwest of Spokane.President

Brian Behler and Melanie Sexton Mick, who have been managing the Williams & Webster PS CPA firm for the past two years, say they're buying the firm from founder Kevin J. Williams and have changed its name to BehlerMick PS.The name change, they a