Nu-Ray Metal Products Inc., based in Auburn, Wash., has expanded its operations to Airway Heights, and hopes to employ eight to 10 people there by year's end. Mike Bankers, who owns the business with his father, Tim Bankers, says the company a a

Westslope Properties Inc. says it has launched two real estate brokerages in the Inland Northwest that specialize in selling forested land owned and managed by its parent company, Boston-based Forest Capital Partners LLC, Forest Capital is an of

The Idaho Transportation Department plans to rehabilitate six bridges along Interstate 90, east of Coeur d'Alene, this summer.The apparent low bidder for that work is a Mukilteo, Wash., company named Penhall Co., which bid $3 million for the of

Community Frameworks, a regional nonprofit with offices in Spokane and Bremerton, Wash., has been awarded a $5.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to help provide 290 low-income living units in Idaho, a

The Spokane Home Builders Association says it's bringing back its Showcase of Homes with a single-site event that will feature homes designed to meet the trade group's environmentally friendly Built Green construction standards.The event will be

Construction employment continued to shrink in most American communities as 313 out of 337 metro areas lost construction jobs between January 2009 and January 2010, says a new analysis of federal employment figures released last month by the of The

Empire Cycle adds Aprilia, Moto Guzzi motorcycle lines The Spokane area's lone dealer for British-made Triumph motorcycles, Empire Cycle & Powersports LLC, at 7807 E. Sprague, says it has added the Italian-built Aprilia and Moto Guzzi

Cables Inc., a company here that made custom cable assemblies that go into electronics and whose customers had included some prominent Spokane technology companies, has ceased operating, and its bankruptcy case has been closed.The contract for