The city of Spokane has chosen five companies from around the U.S. and Canada to supply six small wastewater treatment units for use in a two-year, $7.7 million pilot project, says Dale Arnold, the citys director of wastewater management. Hayden,

The Spokane office of Seattle-based Olympic Associates Co. has been named construction manager for projects northwest of Spokane and in the Tri-Cities with a total value of about $35.5 million. Olympic Associates will oversee $18.5 million in a

Unicep Packing Inc., of Sandpoint, says its anticipating a big jump in revenue next year and plans to hire 13 employees soon to accommodate growth.Unicep makes and fills one-dose, squeezable vials that hold products ranging from hair gel to a

A Spokane couple who bought nearly 93 acres on the West Plains from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane late last month say they plan to develop a big commercial center there.Walter Knopp says he and Bonita Greene bought the land for $2.3 at

A group that includes William Bud Dashiell, founder of the former United Security Bank, has filed papers to launch a new bank to be called United Community Bank, which has plans to open branches initially in the Suncrest area northwest of and a

As health-care costs eat up a growing share of employers budgets, a relatively new strategy for controlling those costsinvolving the use of consumer-directed health plans, or CDHPsis gaining popularity.In a national survey of health plans

Potlatch Corp., the big Spokane-based forest products company, has leased two floors of the Wells Fargo Center downtown and is moving its corporate headquarters there from a smaller space to make room for 25 key managers in its finance group who of

A Kootenai County transportation planning organizations recent decision to recommend a route for a proposed expressway that would divert traffic off of the highly used stretch of U.S. 95 north of Interstate 90 has triggered land-use planning for

The resurgence of Hecla Mining Co.s venerable Lucky Friday mine near Mullan, Idaho, might seem remarkable enough, given recent strong production gains, plummeting cash costs, and a surge in hiring there. That rebirth, however, would pale in to if

Kidney dialysis centers are commonplace today, but they werent in 1962, when three pioneering Spokane physicians opened here the first U.S. dialysis center outside of a research setting that treated chronic kidney disease.The three doctors, a