Growing up on the shores of Liberty Lake, back when it was unincorporated and lightly populated, Kris Mikkelsen says she rode horses and enjoyed the quiet lifestyle there.Now, as CEO of Spokane-based Inland Power & Light Co., she draws no that

The Spokane Area Economic Development Council plans within the next few months to discuss with its major funding partners raising additional money it says it needs to implement a consultants strategy recommendations. The EDC had hired Audrey

Office vacancies in downtown Spokane have jumped sharply in the last six months and could become more widespread, Spokane-area real estate agents say.With more premium floor space on the market there nowand more becoming for tenants are to to

As fuel prices continue to climb across the U.S., trucking and delivery companies here are shifting the load of additional expense onto their customers through fuel surcharges to help offset their costs.The rising fuel prices are pinching and a

Hillyard business leaders and the city of Spokane are working together on an economic-development strategy to transform the underutilized former railroad community into a more vibrant commercial and residential center.The city has budgeted for

More than $40 million in subcontract work for the big Spokane Convention Center expansion project will be coming down the pike in the nearing months, with much of it to be awarded this summer. The Spokane Public Facilities District and a joint

The owners of PC Open Inc., a fast-growing electronics equipment manufacturer here, have formed an affiliated company to make computer servers and software for next-generation digital video recording. The new company, Securgen LLC, has begun of

Travel Management Inc., a Post Falls travel agency and tour operator, says its revenues now are 30 percent higher than they were before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that crippled the travel industry.The company projects $16 million in

Dellen Wood Products Inc., a 43-year-old Spokane maker of fireplace logs, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.Documents that the company has filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court here list its total assets at about $1.1 million and its at

A company headed by Spokane developer John Stone has doubled the size of the big, mixed-used Riverstone development in Coeur dAlene, by agreeing to buy a neighboring, massive gravel quarry along the Spokane River from Central Pre-Mix Concrete of