After more than five years of research and assembly, Mark Holderman, owner and founder of Spokane-based Madpacker Packaging Systems, is ready to sell a new food packaging machine he designed and built.While working in the packaging industry for

Three partners in the Gallatin Public Affairs consulting firm and Spokane attorney Geoffrey D. Swindler have bought a building at the northeast corner of Indiana Avenue and Ruby Street through a company they've formed called Big Problem Solvers and

Steven Herrmann, a former Los Angeles-area chef, has relocated to Spokane to open a restaurant, to be called Savory, at 1314 S. Grand, on the South Hill.Herrmann says he heard of the opportunity to take the space from his friend and Spokane Josh

Streetcars, light rail, and electric trolley buses were the preferred modes of transit cited by attendees of a June 29 open house designed to solicit public comment about alternative transportation possibilities for the downtown Spokane area.The

Longtime Spokane dentist Dr. Stan Sargent says he and podiatrist Dr. Borys Markewych plan to develop and move their practices into an 8,600-square-foot medical building near the intersection of Grand Boulevard and 37th Avenue. The structure will

The Pend Oreille County Public Utility District has awarded a $1.5 million contract to Potelco Inc., of Sumner, Wash., to build a 115-kilovolt power transmission line between the district's Diamond Lake substation and a lot where it will build its

Filings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court here continued to grow during the first half of this year, but at only a 4 percent pace, well below the 44 percent jump in the first six months of 2009 and the 31 percent jump during all of last year. Meanwhile, in