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Big national insurance brokerage buys VEBA

VEBA becomes division of Gallagher company; all employees retained

May 24, 2012

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., an Itasca, Ill.-based international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, has acquired Spokane-based VEBA Service Group LLC, a medical-benefit company.The terms of the transaction weren't disclosed. do

McAdams Wright Ragen opens Spokane office

McAdams Wright Ragen hires team that used to be at Wells Fargo Advisors

May 24, 2012

Linn Parish

Seattle-based investment brokerage McAdams Wright Ragen Inc. has opened a Spokane office, hiring a group of brokers who previously worked in the Wells Fargo Advisors office here. Tom Guthrie, branch manager of the Spokane office, says the firm a

Telect opens development center in Valley

Liberty Lake electronics maker will test, release products from new facility

May 24, 2012

Mike McLean

Telect Inc., the Liberty Lake-based developer and manufacturer of communications networking equipment, says it has opened a new operational development center in Spokane Valley.Telect has an initial staff of 10 employees at the center, which of

Sandpoint economic-development effort focuses on foodies

Economic development initiative also highlights area beverage makers

May 24, 2012

Mike McLean

In his search for ideas to spark economic development in Sandpoint, Idaho, Mark Rivers, a Boise-based real estate and marketing consultant, says he discovered that local food and beverage purveyors, individually and sometimes in cooperation, had to

Farm co-ops plan $17 million grain terminal south of Spokane

Work expected to start soon on big project near Rosalia

May 24, 2012

Treva Lind

A joint venture formed by two regional farm cooperatives expects to start work shortly on a $17 million-plus, grain-handling terminal with a high-capacity railcar-loading system about 35 miles south of Spokane.The facility is scheduled to begin

Expectations for Spokane-area golf courses rise

Golf courses here off to a better start after soggy spring in '11

May 24, 2012

Kim Crompton

Spokane-area golf courses, hammered by a several-year, recession-triggered downturn in activity followed by an abnormally wet spring in 2011, budgeted mostly for flat revenues this year but say they're seeing an upturn in rounds played.Some of

Elk Ridge housing development in Valley re-energizes

New owner revamps bank-seized property; homes rising

May 24, 2012

Kim Crompton

An investor group comprised of Spokane-area real estate developers is resuming work on the big Elk Ridge Heights gated community project south of Spokane Valley after buying the foreclosed property last year from Sterling Bank and redesigning up a

In the News

May 24, 2012

May 22 / Employment here climbsAbout 204,800 people held nonagricultural wage and salary jobs in the Spokane area in April, up about 400 from the prior month but down about 700 from the April 2011 level, preliminary state figures said. results

Calendar

May 24, 2012

Meetings & EventsThe Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold Valley Chamber Founder's Day Celebration on Friday, June 1, from 3 to 5:15 p.m., at its Valley Chamber Business Center at Liberty Lake in the Liberty Square Building, 1421 N. For

Slowing pace of climate change through grassroots efforts

Scientists promote benefits of focusing efforts for now on 'short-lived pollutants'

May 10, 2012

News Wise

The world can significantly slow the pace of climate change with practical efforts to control so-called "short-lived climate pollutants" and by bringing successful Western technologies to the developing world, three UC San Diego scientists assert a