Coeur d'Alene businessman Tom Power and his wife, Patricia, have bought the Wine Cellar, a longtime downtown Coeur d'Alene bistro and jazz venue, and the 9,100-square-foot building it occupies, says Naomi Julian, general manager of the Wine Cellar

Avista Utilities has reduced to $99 the price of the home energy audits it began offering earlier this year, and its customers are responding to the reduction.The Spokane utility notified customers in certain Spokane ZIP codes of the price in an

The city of Sandpoint, Idaho, is seeking bids for a planned expansion of one of its drinking water treatment plants that would about double the city's capacity to supply potable water, says a project manager for the Spokane office of Denver-based 5

Millennium Development LLC, a company owned by real estate investor and developer Rob Brewster Jr., has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court here, listing a $600,000 debt owed to Genesis Financial Corp., of Spokane filing as

Debbie Mumm Inc., a Spokane-based company that creates designs for quilt patterns, home decor items, fabric, stationery, and other products, has moved its operations nearer to downtown.Steve Mumm, chief operating officer and co-owner of the says

One of the sons of prominent Spokane-area property owner and developer Harlan Douglass has sued a brother and a sister over a $685,000 sum paid by Spokane County last year to settle a civil suit regarding a piece of property they own jointly. have

Walker Construction Inc., of Spokane, has been awarded a contract for an estimated $10.4 million project to remodel and expand two schools in the Medical Lake School District, on the West Plains.The project will involve in part the addition of a

A sizable contingency fee owed to a Spokane attorney who represented a woman here who obtained a $5 million settlement in an employment-discrimination lawsuit should be based on that amount rather than a larger satisfaction-of-judgment sum, the has

The Washington state Department of Transportation has received about $2 million in grants to begin design work and right-of-way acquisitions for a planned $10.5 million interchange at U.S. 195 and Cheney-Spokane Road, in southwest Spokane.The be