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Walker's Furniture to expand into Oregon with five stores

Furniture retailer strikes deal to take spaces where five Wilcox stores operate

April 12, 2012

Spokane Valley-based Walker's Furniture Inc. has agreed to take over five stores in northeast Oregon by August, following the retirement of principals who own and plan to close their Hermiston, Ore.-based family business, called Wilcox Furniture in

Spokane Realtors to tweak new-home search in MLS

Inventory lists 414 houses with almost half unbuilt

April 12, 2012

Treva Lind

While Spokane County appears in this area's Multiple Listing Service to have a sizable number of newly constructed, single-family houses for sale, nearly half aren't built and fall into a category the real estate industry calls ghost listings.As

WSU housing project on Jensen-Byrd site could be delayed a year

Developers 'on the cusp' of pushing construction back a year

April 12, 2012

Mike McLean

Development companies that have started the permitting process to raze the former Jensen-Byrd building on Washington State University Spokane's Riverpoint Campus and replace it with an apartment structure are close to pushing the construction back

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April 12, 2012

April 6 / City launches certified-sites programThe city of Spokane launched a new program called "Certified Sites" that it said will provide business owners an easy way to obtain information about commercial and industrial sites that are ready a

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April 12, 2012

Meetings & EventsGreater Spokane Incorporated will hold Good Morning Greater Spokane on Friday, April 13, from 7 to 9 a.m. at the DoubleTree Hotel Spokane City Center, 322 N. Spokane Falls Court. Chris Rivera, president of the Washington & will

Wheatland beefs up security

March 29, 2012

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, says it has entered into a partnership with Sunnyvale, Calif.-based IronKey Inc. that will enable it to provide added protection to its business customers and safeguard their accounts from financial malware attacks.It

Bank profits grew late last year, FDIC says

Earnings have increased for 10 straight quarters; loan-loss provisions drop

March 29, 2012

Commercial banks and savings institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported an aggregate profit of $26.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, a $4.9 billion improvement from the $21.4 billion in net income the industry in of

Credit card issuers continue to target college students

Issuers move off campus, onto social media after other practices blocked

March 29, 2012

PR Newswire

Despite the two-year-old federal legislation to protect young consumers, college-age adults remain easy prey for credit card companies, which have moved off campus and onto Facebook. A recent analysis by University of South Carolina law Eboni a

Consumer credit defaults fell in February, data show

Two consecutive months of declines follow surge in activity late last year

March 29, 2012

PR Newswire

All consumer loan types saw a decline in default rates for a second consecutive month in February, according to new data released earlier this month. The information was compiled by S&P Indices and Experian for the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit a

Bank on Spokane initiative launches, markets services

Group aims to improve targeted demographic's access to financial services

March 29, 2012

Bank On Spokane, a consortium of seven Inland Northwest banks and credit unions and a number of area nonprofit organizations, has formed here to promote financial literacy and to provide low- and moderate-income residents with better access to fair