Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based electronic services manufacturing company, announced this afternoon it has agreed to buy the assets of Sabre Manufacturing, a sheet metal fabrication company in Juarez, Mexico.The $5.1 million transaction

May 21 / Employment here risesAbout 209,800 people held nonagricultural wage and salary jobs in the Spokane area in April, up by 3,600 from the April 2012 level and by 2,700 from March this year, preliminary state figures show. Preliminary from

Meetings & EventsThe Structural Engineers Foundation of Washington will host Behind the Scenes Stories of Washington State's Latest Generation of Unusual Buildings on Tuesday, May 28, at 5 p.m., in the Isabella Room at the Davenport Hotel, 10 S.

Spokane tea house set to open in JuneSilver Spoon Tea House LLC, of Spokane, is scheduled to open June 1 in a historic lower South Hill home and plans to serve tea with bakery sweets and tiny sandwiches in an antique-parlor setting.Silver Tea

Spokane Valley-based N&N Excavation LLC is the apparent low bidder on a $1.8 million city project to replace water main pipe near Gonzaga Preparatory School, says city spokeswoman Julie Happy.The project taking place will affect a roughly 1 of a

During part of the keynote address at Greater Spokane Incorporated's Manufacturing Expo earlier this month, Pearson Packaging Systems Inc. CEO Michael Senske mentioned Spokane's quality of life as one of the Inland Northwest's positive attributes.

Two Inland Northwest tourism services are sharing resources in a joint effort to provide unique travel opportunities to visitors to the region.Framework LLC, which does business as Framework Meetings & Destinations, and ROW Inc., doing business

Altek Inc., a Liberty Lake-base contract manufacturer and plastic injection molding company, says it has invested in and started using a new custom automation program at its facility that the company claims will improve accuracy of its computerized

Zip's Trent LLC, of Spokane Valley, is building a 50-seat, 1,900-square-foot Zip's Drive-In restaurant at the northwest corner of Trent Avenue and Avalon Road, a block west of Evergreen Road.Chad Fowler, who is co-owner of the planned restaurant