When Pakistani officials flexed their military muscles in late May by detonating several nuclear devices in underground tests, the shock waves resonated all the way to Spokane, where RAHCO International was preparing to ship $2 million worth of to

By the end of this year, Spokane County is expected to have 5,800 hotel roomsabout double the number it had 10 years agobut room receipts arent growing as rapidly as rooms are being added, and occupancy rates are down. Put simply, the here

The manufacturing plant that B.F. Goodrich says it plans to build on the West Plains to make carbon disks for airliner brakes appears destined for a site on the south side of Interstate 90 near the Medical Lake interchange.The Richfield, company

Wang Laboratories Inc., of Billerica, Mass., has decided to lease out and ultimately to sell its big 46-acre Olivetti North America campus at Liberty Lake because it doesnt need all of the space at the property, says a Spokane real estate agent,

Exploration Products, a longtime Spokane company that sets up remote camps around the world for mining, oil, and military exploration teams, has moved its headquarters to Bellingham, Wash.Company President Tim Myhre says he moved the company to

Sabey Corp., the Seattle-based owner of NorthTown Mall, says the company is getting ready to move ahead with a previously announced $54 million expansion of the mall, which is Spokanes largest shopping center.Work is expected to begin next on

Steve Gevurtz, one of the founding officers of Itronix Corp., a Spokane maker of rugged, hand-held computers for field-service technicians, has stepped down as that companys chief executive officer. Separately, the company has cut back its work a

Weinstein Beverage Co. of Spokane, the distributor here of Seven-Up and other beverages, has leased part of a warehouse building in the Spokane Valley and plans to move there in August from cramped space it occupies near the Rock Pointe office of &

J. Kingsley Novell, chairman of Spokanes financially troubled Alloy Trailers Inc., says he has agreed to sell the companys assets to Redwood Reliance Sales Co., of Santa Rosa, Calif.Alloy filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11

With the renovation and expansion of Lewis & Clark High School looming just 14 months away, Spokane School District 81 is taking steps to buy most of a city block just east of the downtown-area school that it says is crucial for the expansion. and