Siblings Kim and Matt Davidson didn't anticipate when they left other careers to take over family-owned Davidson Commodities Inc., of Spokane, that changing market conditions would spur them to revamp the 20-year-old grain-trading business almost a

When Greg Seibly was named acting president and CEO of Sterling Financial Corp. a year ago and given the task of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to save the Spokane company, he did what many of us would have done: He consulted with an old &

Thomas Hammer Coffee Roasting Co., a Spokane company with nine retail coffee houses and about 200 wholesale customers, says it plans to more than double the size of its retail chain, including entering markets as far away as San Francisco, while on

Manufacturers here say they've started seeing slow but steady growth and recovery in both the local and national market, and are hopeful about 2011, though cautiousness remains.The national press has been reporting for some time that has been I

North Idaho's Silver Valley is poised for renewed prosperity in mining—and the highly paid jobs that industry brings—but the most recent proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up historic mining pollution there that