Johnny Humphreys enjoys golfing and motorcycling, so its not surprising that the retired but still enterprising former top executive of Liberty Lake-based Itron Inc. would come up with an invention that seeks to merge the two pastimes.The n a

Hart & Dilatush Pharmacy, a longtime drugstore in downtown Spokane, has moved to the Bank of America Financial Center after operating for 34 years in part of the Ridpath Hotel complex.The pharmacy, which has been in business here since 1918, to

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, says its net marginsequivalent to net incomeleaped 42 percent to $4.5 million last year, due partly to better-than-expected power sales and lower-than-expected operating costs. a

A Spokane development company says its spending nearly $2 million to convert a church complex north of the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena into an event center with planned capabilities to accommodate multiple business meetings and social located

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 &