Avista Corp., the longtime Spokane-based utility once known as Washington Water Power Co., announced this afternoon that Toronto-based Hydro One will acquire it in a transaction valued at $5.3 billion U.S., or $6.7 billion Canadian. The transaction has

Klint Croucher has debuted Palouse Bar & Grill Restaurant, located at 2912 E. Palouse Highway on the South Hill. Croucher says he assumed the lease from Anthony's Beach Café, which closed there in December. Dave Black, CEO of NAI Black, helped broker

Members of the Seattle City Council who are proposing a tax on the gross income of Seattle residents they view as 'the wealthy” need to come clean with those constituents who are actually hoping for additional revenue to deal with what they perceive a

Amid what seems like ever more poisonous partisan political bickering comes a good example, forged by business representatives, labor interests, other stakeholders, and the Washington state Legislature, of what can happen when people come together to work

Paul Read, publisher of the Journal of Business, has been elected president of the Alliance of Area Business Publishers, a national nonprofit organization representing 55 independent magazine and newspaper members in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Read

A preliminary financial report released last month shows revenue and passenger counts at Spokane International Airport are on the rise, with data showing consolidated revenues of nearly $11.5 million through April, about 7.1 percent above budget. Todd W