Michelle Hege was employee No. 1 when Jim and Cher Desautel started a public relations firm in the 1990s. Last July, she became the top executive at Desautel Hege Communications Inc., a firm based in the Morgan Building, at 315 W. Riverside in downtown

Spokane Park Board members will meet next week to deliberate and vote on the $60 million master plan as it exists today and a finance package to renovate Riverfront Park that, if approved, will go to the Spokane City Council for approval before it can be

New Mill Capital LLC, the owner of the large former Kaiser Aluminum Corp. Mead Works smelting plant property north of Spokane, is readying for the second phase of demolition at the long-shuttered plant, says Ken Hoff, site manager. Hoff says he hopes bi

Players in the Spokane food truck-regulations fracas were meeting this week to try to iron out some of the issues around a proposed ordinance governing how, when, and where mobile food truck vendors operate in and around the Spokane area. Ben Stuckart,

Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. is plugged into an aggressive growth strategy as it increases its lines of products and services and expands its markets, says Luis D'Acosta, SEL's chief operations officer. The 30-year-old comp