Northwest Bancorporation Inc., the Spokane-based parent of Inland Northwest Bank, has reported a third-quarter net loss of $804,000, or 34 cents a share, compared with net income of $203,000, or 9 cents a share, in the year-earlier results show L.

Spokane restaurateur Dennis Kelly, who owns four Zip's Drive-In restaurants here, says he has bought a fifth, in Spokane Valley. Separately, the longtime owners of the Zip's in Cheney say they and some partners have reopened a Zip's outlet in that

Northwest Farm Credit Services, of Spokane, has reported third-quarter net income of $29.9 million, compared with $39 million in the year-earlier quarter.Through the first nine months of this year, earnings were $65.6 million, compared with in a

Tina and David Bishop, of Spokane Valley, say they've leased a large space in the Riverwalk Plaza near Trent Avenue and Hamilton Street where they plan to open soon one of two events centers in a venture that also will include a restaurant, lounge,

A renovated, but mostly vacant 24,000-square-foot retail center at the northwest corner of the busy Sprague Avenue-Freya Street intersection has been sold to Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based American Marine Bank at a trustee's auction here for the a

Litehouse Foods Inc., the longtime Sandpoint salad dressing maker, recently launched a new line of varietal apple cider blends that it says marks an expansion by the company in a new direction. Paul Kuschke, Litehouse's director of marketing and

Two businessmen say they plan to open a franchise in Spokane Valley of HiLine Homes, which builds conventionally constructed homes "on your site", to serve the Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, and Sandpoint areas.HiLine Homes, based in Puyallup, Wash.,

Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, says it will open an office in the Tri-Cities area of Central Washington Dec. 1.The new office will be in south Richland near the Columbia Point Golf Course, about 150 miles southwest of Spokane.President