D.A. Davidson & Co., the Great Falls, Mont.-based stock brokerage, has boosted its 2004 and 2005 earnings estimates for Avista Corp., based partly on the Spokane companys potential for greater electric and gas rate relief than projected earlier.

A real estate investment company has bought the former Pre-Vocational Training Center facility on the busy Division Street-Ruby couplet and plans to redevelop the site for retail uses.The company, Magnolia Enterprises LLC, bought the property a

The Spokane area added far more jobs in both April and May than it had in any month since June 2001, the latest figures from the Washington state Department of Employment Security show.Some 3,800 more people had jobs in May than in the month, a

HAYDEN, IdahoRandy Henry wanted to change the world one golf swing at a time. The co-founder of Henry-Griffitts Inc., a 21-year-old golf club maker here, created a business to build custom golf clubs for average players who otherwise would to

A Coeur dAlene development group says it hopes to undertake about $60 million in commercial development near the new Wal-Mart store in Post Falls and the site where another Wal-Mart is proposed at Hayden, Idaho.The group, which includes Coeur

Demand for small retail spaces is picking up here, offering signs of rising business confidence following a long soft spell, commercial real estate specialists say.Some partially filled retail centers that saw new leasing activity grind almost

A Canadian company thats proposing to build a high-capacity power line from northern Alberta to Eastern Oregon says an $80 million-to-$100 million power-conversion station near Spokane would do much to optimize benefits from the line.The says

Daybreak Youth Services, a Spokane-based nonprofit that provides drug- and alcohol-abuse counseling to teens, has bought about three acres of land in Vancouver, Wash., and envisions building a new, $10 million inpatient treatment center Smith, says

For Sam Henrichs, finding customers isnt nearly as hard as finding suppliers.Thats why Henrichs, who owns Spokane sperm bank N.W. Andrology & Cyrobank Inc., gets a twinkle in his eye at the thought of opening a branch office in Pullman of a

A growing number of health-care providers here are using automated devices that recover and reinfuse blood lost by patients during surgeries.Dr. Douglas McInnis, an orthopedic surgeon at Kootenai Medical Center, one of the latest hospitals to 5