Wells Fargo Banks new top executive here says hes working to expand the San Francisco-based banks Spokane-area branch system and has been adding personnel here.Don Young, Wells Fargos new Spokane-based community bank president, says he

The general manager of Northwest Seed & Pet has bought the assets of that 59-year-old Spokane pet and garden-supply business.Bob Mauk, who has been with the company for 25 years and worked his way up from clerk to general manager, bought Seed a

Lithia Motors Inc., of Medford, Ore., plans to buy Spokane-based Sutherland Motors Ltd., a Mercedes-Benz dealer located downtown, says Sutherlands Operations Manager Tom Grainger.Its a certainty that its happening, as told to us by our

The city of Spokanes design review committee and its Plan Commission will hold a joint workshop tonight to kick off discussions about new citywide design guidelines, which developers would be required to follow as they developed projects.The

Colmac Industries Inc., a Colville, Wash.-based company that makes pressing equipment for commercial laundries, has acquired the assets of Count On Us Corp., of Kansas City, Mo., which manufactures soiled-linen counting software and transaction the

Not so fast, Moses Lake and Everett.Spokane real estate developers Dick Edwards and Pete Thompson are making a belated pitch to Chicago-based Boeing Co. to choose a site on the West Plains here to build its next-generation 7E7 Dreamliner two a

Like a yeast starter that already has risen in several batches of bread, Spokane-based retailer Cooks Dream Inc. has grown from an eBay startup to a multifaceted Internet, brick-and-mortar, and culinary-education business. The companys two

Guess what segment of the Spokane-area home market is growing the fastest? The $100,000-to-$124,999 range? Thats the largest, but not the fastest growing. The $150,000-to-$199,999 range? Its growing briskly, but its not the fastest in

While the Inland Northwest economy limped its way through 2002, the regions top-level executives generally saw the kind of pay raises thatll put a spring in your step.Executives of publicly traded companies in Spokane and North Idaho, on 17

Nearly a decade after launching whats known as the Spokane Heart Study, its lead investigator is preparing to publish findings that could change the way the world looks at heart-disease risk.For instance, people who have high cholesterol but