Blew's Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, has won a $1.6 million contract to convert a former Rite Aid store building in the University City area into a new skills center for high school students, to be called Spokane Valley Tech.Construction

The Spokane office of Northeast Washington Home Health, which provides in-home health care services to a large area here, has changed its name and now is operating as Assured Home Health.A press release issued about the name change said the home

Safeway Inc. has launched a $1 million-plus traffic-improvement project at its distribution center in the Hillyard neighborhood, says Dane Albrecht, corporate operations engineering manager for the big Pleasanton, Calif.-based supermarket project a

Accra-Fab, Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of machined components and precision sheet metal, has reported substantial operational savings after a large wastewater-reclamation project completed earlier this year that's intended to make its line E

Liberty Lake-based manufacturer Itron Inc., which makes energy-management equipment and systems, has won a new contract with CPFL Energia, a large private group in the Brazilian energy sector that provides electricity distribution, generation, and

Bill and Rene' Andres have sold Brown Bearing Co., a Spokane-based bearing and mechanical-transmission product retailer, to BDI, a Cleveland-based global industrial supply distributor, says Robyn Stern, Brown Bearing's new operations manager.The

Spokane-based Mines Man-agement Inc., which is involved in the acquisition, exploration, and development of precious- and base-mineral properties, has reported a second-quarter net loss of $2.4 million, compared with a net loss of $1.6 million for

Meridian Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, has started work on a $1.1 million hangar remodel at the Spokane International Airport to accommodate some Horizon Air operations. The airline plans to use the upgraded 32,000-square-foot hangar for