During the past 20 years, investors have been exposed to the tech bubble, the likes of Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford, the financial liquidity crisis of the late 2000s, and other unsettling events. More recently, we have heard much about the and

Urban planners have long preached that one key measure of a community's quality of life is the quality of its parks.A hundred years ago, visionaries in Spokane made parks a priority. Thus the city and county have been blessed with abundant for a

Freeborn Tool Co., of Spokane, a longtime maker of cutting tools for woodworking applications, will move to a larger facility next month, says Michael Foster, co-owner of the company.Foster recently formed Mikafo Properties LLC, which bought for

The Elephant Boys, a Spokane Valley discount boat dealer, has moved a few hundred feet west and into the former Liquidation World building, where the dealership has more than tripled its space, says owner Ed Conley.The Elephant Boys now occupies

Hart Capital Management Inc., a Spokane-based investment firm, says the stock value of 15 publicly traded Inland Northwest companies as measured in an overall index performed well last year compared with the Standard & Poor's 500. For its Inland

Spokane-based business software company Imprezzio Inc. recently has landed a big contract with a major insurance company. The company is looking to fill 18 positions now—and perhaps that many more later this year, says Lisa Bick, Imprezzio's a

Bankruptcy filings declined for the third consecutive year, with 750 fewer filings in Eastern Washington in 2012 than in the previous year. Attorneys here, however, say bankruptcies could climb this year. Businesses and consumers filed a of a

Aslin-Finch Co., a Spokane Valley-based concern that operates seven retail feed and pet supply stores, and its AFCO Distribution & Milling wholesale division have been acquired by agricultural co-operative Skagit Farmers Supply, of Burlington, of a

Pullman, Wash.-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. is acting as its own contractor on two major construction projects under way with a combined value exceeding $19 million.One project is a $9 million, 98,000-square-foot Zocholl on in