Kris Mote, executive director of the Spokane Public Facilities District, which owns the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, has resigned after 10 years with the district.Motes departure and growing public interest in other roles the district take

Post Falls-based Hatter Investments Inc., a franchisee that operates 14 Burger King restaurants in Spokane and Kootenai counties, has sold its franchises to Garliz Investments LLC, a Burger King franchisee from Wenatchee, Wash., that has moved its

Most of those KC-135 Stratotanker jets from Fairchild Air Force Base that you often see passing over Spokane soon will be operating with one less crew member.New computerized avionics systems that eliminate the need for a navigator currently are

Avista Advantage Inc., an Internet-based billing and information-management company here, has a new home for its quickly growing corporate headquarters and Spokane operations center. The company, which is a subsidiary of Spokane-based Avista has

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is looking at Post Falls as a possible site for one of its supercenter stores, but its unlikely that the giant Arkansas-based retail chain will make visible progress on the project for months, a Post Falls planning official a

Cisco Systems Inc., the huge San Jose, Calif.-based Internet network-systems company, plans to move its Spokane regional office into a bigger space soon in anticipation of substantial growth here over the next five years.Mike Peterson, who the a

Developer Marshall Chesrown says he has accelerated the project schedule on his planned 650-acre Black Rock golf course and residential development in Kootenai County, which he now says will get under way in July and cost upwards of $30 million

A former Western Washington logger and land-clearing contractor has found a way to generate income from clean wood wasteby converting it into brightly colored landscaping mulch.The affable, slightly zany entrepreneur, Tim Davison, is producing

An influx of Californians helped make the Idaho Panhandle the fastest-growing region in that state in the 1990s, says Kathryn Tacke, labor market analyst with the Idaho Department of Labors Coeur dAlene office.Kootenai County, which added 48

More and more colorful drive-up espresso stands dot Division Street, freckle Francis, and mark Maple.The little shops, which also are scattered along Sprague, tucked away on Trent, and built on other busy thoroughfares, have been popping up for