Empire Bolt & Screw Inc., a Spokane-based distributor of threaded products, standard fasteners, and industrial goods, plans to open a new warehouse distribution facility in Summerville, South Carolina.

Spokane angel investor Tom Simpson says he has completed fundraising for Kick-Start V, a $3.8 million venture capital fund to invest in local and regional startups.

Manufacturing of commercial aircraft components is beginning to pick up again after years of low production rates here, some Inland Northwest aerospace companies say.

The Renton, Washington-based office of Panattoni Development Co. is behind two Spokane-area distribution center developments valued at $63 million combined. One is the $46 million, three-building West Plains Logistics complex planned on a 10-acre site

Two prominent Spokane bridge-replacement projects valued at a total of nearly $50 million are expected to wrap up this year. In downtown Spokane, on the west edge of Riverfront Park, the city of Spokane is replacing the 106-year-old, 333-foot-long

The first phase of Spokane International Airport's Terminal Remodeling & Expansion, or TREX, project is on schedule and on budget, says Larry Krauter, Spokane International Airport CEO. The airport broke ground in October on the project's first

Construction on the 10.5-mile North Spokane Corridor project, which eventually will meet up with Interstate 90, is proceeding southward along the western edge of the Spokane Community College campus, says Washington state Department of Transportation

Separate manufacturing facilities are under construction in the east and west areas of Spokane. Pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging company Jubilant HollisterStier LLC obtained building permits in September to begin the first of two expansion

The Idaho Transportation Department has launched its first full season of construction on a four-year, $78 million project at the Interstate 90-state Route 41 interchange in Post Falls. Bridge construction will be the main focus of the project this