The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (MAC) has contracted with Klundt Hosmer Design, the Spokane-based visual-communications firm, to develop an advertising and marketing campaign that the museum hopes will appeal to families.The contract, 1

A series of computer viruses that wormed their way into corporate America last month has spurred some Spokane-area businesses and agencies to review their cyber safeguards.What theyre finding is of little comfort in many cases, professionals

Columbia Fiber Solutions Inc., the Spokane concern that owns the former Avista Corp. fiber-optic network here and has focused strictly on offering fiber to companies that have their own equipment to use it, now plans to light up some of its for

The municipalities of Sprague, Wilbur, and Creston are joining forces to begin planning revitalization projects in their downtowns.The Inland Northwest towns were expected to select a program manager and engineer team this week to design three

The Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institutes application for a $3 million U.S. Economic Development Administration grant to build a wet-lab facility here has been denied, at least for now.It is final that it wont be this

The University of Phoenix, a large private university that targets working professionals, has opened a Spokane learning center and plans to start offering classes here later this month.The Phoenix-based school, which operates 130 learning in 26

Flagstone Development Group Inc., a company here headed by Spokane home builder Jim Sullivan, is proposing two new planned-unit developments in the Spokane area with a combined value of roughly $13 million.On Spokanes South Hill, Flagstone a

Spokane-based Wheatland Bank has agreed to sell its Cheney branch and transfer that branchs deposits to Spokane Teachers Credit Union. The loans held by Wheatlands Cheney branch will remain with Wheatland, but the branchs four employees a

Seattle developer Nitze-Stagen & Co. has postponed a decision on whether to co-develop the 76-acre Summit site west of downtown with Spokane-based Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., which owns the property. The Seattle company is talking, as a

Marking the first time it has ventured out of the Spokane-Coeur dAlene market, Numerica Credit Union has absorbed a three-branch credit union based in Wenatchee, Wash. It also is looking at expanding into the Tri-Cities.Through a merger Sept.