The warm glow of Christmas tree lights and shimmering ornaments dazzle the eyes when you first enter the Christmas at the Lake store in downtown Coeur dAlene.Wandering through a small forest of decorated Christmas trees to the tunes of songs,

A company headed by prominent Spokane developer Dick Vandervert is building a $12 million, 192-unit apartment complex in Liberty Lake.Site work for the project started last month at the southeast corner of Country Vista Drive and Henry Road, in

Spokane-area business advocates will go to Olympia this legislative session asking for more than $115 million for higher-education capital projects here, most of which are just now being introduced, including $40.6 million for two major also be and

The Argonne-Mullan corridor, an area of Spokane Valley thats flush with partially vacant office buildings, is a focus of renewed interest from developers who recently have completed or are planning projects worth at least $13 million. During

The amount of air cargo handled at Spokane International Airport grew at a healthy 5.7 percent clip during the first 10 months of this year, signaling a possible turnaround following three years of stagnation.We had a very good October, and a

Jerry Newcomb, middle-aged and needing a job, was looking for something just to help tide him through to retirement when he decided seven years ago to open an auto-lube shop in Airway Heights.He and his wife, Jeanne, formed a company called J&J

Northwest Freight Handlers Inc., a Spokane-based company that unloads goods from trucks and cargo containers for other companies, has doubled its revenues over the last three months and now is considering expanding to Portland and Southern says the

The owners of the Viking, a longtime and popular tavern here, and Season Ticket Sports, Spirits & Grub, a sports bar and restaurant near Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, have filed personally for protection from creditors in U.S. Bankruptcy Court a

Sonderen Packaging, a Spokane maker of folding-carton products, has bought the assets of Seattle-based Stoneway Carton Co.President Mark Sonderen says he expects that the acquisition will boost Sonderen Packagings revenues by about 30 percent

Flooring Sales Group LLC, a Coeur dAlene-based company that operates a chain of Great Floors retail stores in Washington and Idaho, says it has acquired the Spokane operation of The Invironmentalists, a national commercial flooring chain, for an