Intense pressure to get products to market prompted Eastern Washington businesses to rank unclogging Puget Sound highways as a close secondbehind avalanche-caused delays at Snoqualmie Passin their transportation-improvement priorities in a last

Coffee shops and drive-through espresso stands are popping up faster here than one can say grande, double-shot, nonfat mocha, and java experts say that despite heated competition, those businesses are adding an extra caffeine jolt to an already

Spokane Public Schools has decided to turn Shadle Park High School around. Literally.Northwest Architectural Co., of Spokane, has completed preliminary design work of the planned $59 million modernization of the 49-year-old high school at a

The number of home sales in the Spokane area through the first four months of this year didnt keep up with last years record pace, according to the Spokane Multiple Listing Service. Sales prices, however, continued to climb, and as a the of

Capital improvement projects worth an estimated $72 million either have gotten under way already this year at Spokane International Airport (SIA) or are planned to start between now and the end of 2008, airport officials say.SIA expects that an

Kohls Department Stores Inc. has bought a building at NorthTown Mall that Hayward, Calif.-based Mervyns LLC currently occupies, Spokane County real estate records show.The large Menomonee Falls, Wis.-based department store chain bought the

Outward appearances dont give any hint that Absolute Aviation Services Inc. is an enterprise on the rise.The 2-year-old Spokane company, which repairs flight instruments and other electronic equipment for airlines, occupies a modest 2,300 of

Itron BV, Itron Inc.s Amsterdam-based European subsidiary, has forged an agreement to market a sophisticated electronic-messaging system produced by Axway BV, a Dutch company, with Itrons own utility meter data-management system.Axways or

Spokane businessman Ahmad Haghighi plans to develop a two-story, $1 million retail-and-office building on Spokanes South Hill. The project is proposed for two-thirds of an acre at the southwest corner of 55th Avenue and Regal Street. As the a

Northwest Farm Credit Services, of Spokane, has announced first-quarter earnings of $25.2 million, up sharply from $20 million in the year-earlier quarter.The federally-chartered ag-lending cooperative says its 2006 first-quarter net income far