Harbor Freight Tools, a California-based tool retailer that operates a store in Spokane Valley, says it plans to open its second Spokane store, on the North Side.The Camarillo, Calif., company plans to open the new store in mid-May in a roughly

Spokane Teachers Credit Union says it will open a branch next year in the Northtown Square boutique shopping center, which is to be developed on the site of the Wendle Ford dealership, at 4727 N. Division.The branch will be the 13th for STCU 12

Jeffery Johnson and Kelly Snyder, who own Spokane engine remanufacturer S&S Engine Remanufacturing Co., have bought Jones Automotive Engines Inc., a similar, longtime business here, from Robert Jones for an undisclosed sum, and Jones has two each

Itron Inc. hopes that a $480 million utility-meter contract it landed with Southern California Edison in Decemberby far the biggest contract in the history of the company and the utility-meter industryis just the first such enormous Southern to

The Institute for Systems Medicine Planning Authority has named a strategic advisory board of top national health-care research figures to help guide its efforts to set up an organization that will advance the application of and research into the a

The city of Spokane Valley expects to decide in coming months whether to move forward with consultants suggestions for stemming the loss of businesses along the Sprague-Appleway corridor, or whether those recommendations involve a big step and &

Avista Utilities is studying ways to link with and gain benefits from a $5 billion power line that a California utility has proposed to build between Northern California and British Columbia by late 2015.The California utility, Pacific Gas and

Despite reports to the contrary, urban sprawl has continued to grow significantly for the past several decades, new research suggests.A study of changing land-use patterns in the state of Maryland found substantial and significant increases in

Spokanes residential construction market, which heated up to red hot in recent years before starting to cool last year, likely will continue to chill somewhat this year, experts here say. Joel White, executive officer of the Spokane Home says

After two years of collecting and compiling data on the Spokane and Kootenai county housing markets, New Home Trends Inc., a Bothell, Wash.-based research and consulting company, has launched an online database of residential home development here.