When a bank fails somewhere across the country, its closure is good news for one new Seattle company.Roanoke Financial Group plans to capture part of the $36 billion nationwide market for failed bank assets left behind by banks when they are and

Spokane Valley-based State Bank Northwest posted a net loss of $1.2 million for last year, down from net income of $652,000 in 2008, according to year-end financial documents it has filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.Though the bank's

More than 80 percent of lenders who responded to a recent survey believe the Dow Jones Industrial Average will yield gains this year. Survey respondents also predict that constrained liquidity in the capital markets and sluggish housing market are

Sales manager buys into Liberty Lake, Valley Windermere Rick Rieger, a former sales manager for an international medical supplier, says he has bought a 50 percent interest in Windermere Real Estate Valley Inc. from broker and owner The

The discussion of public-policy matters here should get a welcome boost with the Washington Policy Center adding its well-researched opinions to the mix more frequently, following its recent opening of an Eastern Washington office here.The says

Randall L. Fewel, president and CEO of Inland Northwest Bank, has projected that the Spokane-based institution will return to profitability this year.The bank's parent, Northwest Bancorporation Inc., reported recently a fourth-quarter net loss a

Central Pre-Mix Development Corp. is seeking to rezone for mining uses 85 acres of land it bought in 2008 at an auction of part of the former Spokane Raceway Park property.Central Pre-Mix, which produces ready-mix cement and sand and gravel to a

The operator of Red Lion Hotels Corp.'s TicketsWest call center here says it has begun having some of the employees in that center work from their homes. TicketsWest outsourced its call center ticket sales in Spokane last spring to Dallas-based