The Spokane franchisee of Grease Monkey, who opened an outlet of the auto-service chain in a strip-mall adjacent to Wandermere Mall two weeks ago, says he hopes to open four to five more outlets here in the next few years.The franchisee, Steve a

A newly formed Spokane company has opened a marketing and distribution operation here and plans to open three more such operations here, in the Tri-Cities, and in the Seattle area. The company, Aris Marketing Inc., expects to employ a total of 80 a

ST. MARIES, IdahoHere a box of coyote jaws, there a stack of buffalo ankle bones, upstairs a rack of wolverine pelts, and on the shelf, a row of deer and elk antlers. Wal-Mart, it aint.Actually, it is, in a way; Eidnes Furs Inc. is the

A Washington state Department of Ecology study thats nearly completed could restrict further discharges into the Spokane River by municipal wastewater-treatment facilities and two private companies.Such new limits could force dischargers to to

Retool your skills, retrain for a new careerin a fat economy, these are the kinds of slogans you see on matchbook covers and bus-stop benches, and its advice thats widely ignored.Why retrain when jobs are easy to come by? With the and

Lenders say home-loan refinancing activity has begun building toward a crescendo in recent weeks following yet another dip in mortgage-loan interest rates.With lower rates, more people have inquired about reworking home loans to lower their and

Sharp Shooting Indoor Range & Gun Shop Inc., of Spokane, faces foreclosure by a Texas company after defaulting on a loan that originally was guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration. According to a foreclosure action filed in Court

Tom Addis, who owns two auto dealerships in Coeur dAlene, is buying Jackson Motors Inc., a longtime Ford dealership in Newport, Wash., and will move that dealership to a new location there. Addis company, Tom Addis Automotive Group, expects

Output Technology Corp., a manufacturer of high-speed computer printers here, plans to move into a 20,000-square-foot space at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, in the Spokane Valley.Crown West Realty LLC, the Spokane company that owns and

The city of Cheney expects early next month to hire a contractor to design the backbone of a high-capacity fiber-optic network that eventually could bring broadband computer and telecommunications lines to its 4,000 utility customers, including