Avista Corp.'s recent contribution of $6.5 million to the Avista Foundation brings the total endowment to about $10 million, which is enabling the organization to perpetuate its mission of helping to sustain the community through its focus on education,

Spokane Valley overhead door dealer and installer Continental Door Co. is anticipating another strong year of sales, with revenues projected to be up 20 percent compared with 2013, says founder, co-owner, and President Norm Morse.

Telect Inc., the Liberty Lake-based developer and manufacturer of communications networking equipment, is investing in and leasing office space to a new company here named Weckey Inc., which has developed a mobile tablet guestbook application for business

The Spokane Valley Fire Department is wrapping up $1.4 million worth of renovations to its University and Otis Orchards stations, says Larry Rider, deputy chief of support systems for the fire department.

Coeur d'Alene-based Contractors Northwest Inc. has been navigating choppy waters since the recession, says Dean Haagenson, the company's cofounder, chairman, and CEO. CNI has charted a respectable year in 2013, buoyed in part by the $14.6 million McE

Cindy Carrigan and her business partner, Doc Nicolson, both brokers with Keller Williams Realty Spokane Five Star Real Estate Group, have specialized in selling foreclosed homes here since 2001.

Bloom Spokane, the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene area nonprofit chapter of BirthNetwork National, has released its first Hospital Maternity Guide that shows childbirth options offered by area hospitals, says Bloom founder Tine Reese and Birth Options progra

In 2008, when Cindy Jayne, 52, retired after serving 22 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve, she was angry, depressed, drinking heavily, and had threatened suicide more than once. She wasn't technically homeless, she says, but she spent the better part of a