Spokane County has set a tentative date of the week of Oct. 20 for naming a long-term operator for the 200-acre racing complex on the West Plains that it acquired two months ago.Earlier, the county had set a Sept. 19 deadline for receiving but

Spokane Valley-based Central Pre-Mix Concrete Co. says it plans to expand a basalt quarry on a square mile of property it owns in the Wandermere area north of Spokane.The property is located east of the north end of Perry Street and north of of

Sterling Financial Corp. has entered into amended employment agreements with three of its top executives in an attempt to send the market a calming message.The Spokane-based company reached the agreements last month with Harold Gilkey, its and

Tennis has been a part of Dave and Karen Benishs life for more than 25 years, and they say their love for the sport hasnt diminished a bit.The couple, who recently celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary, opened a specialty tennis shop of

Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based contract manufacturer, says it expects 10 new customers to come on line in its 2009 fiscal year, which began at the end of June, and to contribute strongly to its revenue.Jack Oehlke, Key Tronics and

The city of Spokane hasnt offered mediation to Diamond Parking Inc. in its condemnation suit against the company to acquire property in the block south of the INB Performing Arts Center and Convention Center, and Diamond is uninterested in says a

Goodrich Corp., the Charlotte, N.C.-based company that makes carbon aircraft brakes at a nine-year-old plant on the West Plains, has won a big reduction in the personal-property taxes it pays on the expensive equipment at the plant.The company

Freedom Truck Centers Inc., of Spokane, is developing a $7 million dealership building near the Interstate 90-Medical Lake interchange and plans to consolidate its other Spokane-area operations there, says owner Ken Cook.Work on the project is

When the Washington state Department of Transportation started acquiring houses it must demolish for the North Spokane Corridor project, it didnt expect to spend so much time screwing windows and doors shut and fixing fences broken by Ziemann, to

While the question of whether to convert Spokane Valleys busy Sprague-Appleway couplet to two-way streets has become a headline debate, a less well-known part of the citys broad rejuvenation proposal for that corridor is drawing sharp criticism