A Spokane events business has leased part of the shuttered Bayou Brewing Co. premises, and two other businesses, an Airway Heights microbrewery and a Spokane Thai restaurant, expect to sign leases there soon and move their respective operations the

A Kmart store in the Spokane Valley is one of two in Washington state that are on a leaked list of more than 200 Kmart stores reportedly slated for closure, the Puget Sound Business Journal, of Seattle, says.Kmart Corp., the struggling Troy, for

A group of Coeur dAlene doctors has signed an agreement with a Chicago company to open a surgical hospital in Post Falls, a move that Kootenai Medical CenterCoeur dAlenes only hospitalestimates will cost it $6 million to $7 million a year

Rahco International Inc., the longtime Spokane industrial manufacturer, says it has landed a contract to supply two more of its salt harvesters to a Chinese maker of potash for fertilizers. The contract is worth roughly $10 million. Meanwhile, ,

I will never be in the flower business. Thats the vow Tom Lavagetto made to his father when he left high school, after spending a good deal of his childhood helping out in the family-owned greenhouse business here. Yet, Lavagetto, 56, a

Iron Bridge LLC, the Spokane company that plans to develop an office complex, valued at as much as $60 million, along the Spokane River east of Hamilton Street, expects to ask the city of Spokane to form a tax-increment financing district there to

Proponents of a spate of proposed Spokane-area sports facilities have huddled on the sidelines to strategize against their newest adversarya slow economy that has spiked their hopes of building two multimillion-dollar recreational complexes here

For the last several years, Sterling Savings Bank has reminded investors repeatedly that its transforming itself into a community bank and moving away from its roots as a savings and loan association.Now, the big Spokane institution is its the

Spokane home builders say the cost of buying some new homes within the city could increase by as much as $5,000 if the City Council adopts newly proposed water and sewer charges to pay for about $85 million in system expansions over the next 20 a a

Futures Unlimited Inc., of Columbus, Miss., plans to open Feb. 11 an outpatient rehabilitation clinic in Spokane that will specialize in providing therapy for patients with nervous-system dysfunctions. Ed Snapp, president and founder of the says