City, community, and arts leaders are combining efforts to improve a vacant lot at Third Avenue and Division Street-currently filled with rebar, bits of broken concrete foundation, and dried-out weeds-by putting up a portable, 420-foot plywood fence t

After years of contraction in the sewing manufacturing industry, some remaining sewing manufacturers here are seeing a resurgence in sales and employment growth, and others are looking at setting up operations in the Inland Northwest, some industry source

Hewes Marine Co., the Colville, Wash.-based manufacturer of Hewescraft aluminum fishing boats, is in the architectural planning stages of a $2 million facility expansion, says Tim Baris, the company's operations and finance director. Garco Constructi

Two veterans of the life sciences industry have partnered to form a new biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry talent recruitment business here, called Celere LLC. Former Jubilant HollisterStier CEO Marcelo Morales and Justin Rayment, who owns a sepa

As the Inland Northwest reels from nature's one-two punch of a pair of violent windstorms in late July and early August, some businesses have yet to tally losses, while cleanup and repair services and suppliers anticipate big gains. The first of the tw

Kristen Otoupalik, longtime friend of Sheena Henderson, 30, who was killed by her husband Christopher Henderson, 37, at Deaconess Hospital last month, says she never will forget the text she received from her friend minutes before the shooting where Sheen

In late June, the American Bankers Association and AARP announced a two-year partnership to study and help prevent the financial exploitation of elder Americans. Locally, financial institutions are using employee training and customer education to try to

Itron Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of utility meter reading technology, with year-over-year revenue growth driven by double-digit gains in both its gas and water lines of business, is poised to take advantage of new global markets, says Philip Mezey