Avista Corp., of Spokane, says it has reached a settlement with other parties on the utility's electric and natural gas rate increase requests for Washington customers filed April 2.If the settlement is approved by the state Utilities and Avista a

Potlatch Corp., of Spokane, reported third-quarter net income of $18.6 million, or 46 cents a diluted share, down from $25.6 million, or 63 cents a share, in the 2011 third quarter.While Potlatch's results were down compared with the year-earlier

Pearson Packaging Systems, of Spokane, says it has acquired Moen Industries, a Los Angeles-based producer of packaging equipment and corrugated packaging designs.Terms of the transaction weren't disclosed.Pearson Packaging, which started here in

Helena, Mont.-based Eagle Bancorp Montana Inc., parent company of American Federal Savings Bank, has received regulatory approval to purchase seven bank branches from Sterling Financial Corp., Spokane-based parent of Sterling Bank.The bank holding

Avista Corp., of Spokane, has filed requests with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission to increase electric and natural gas rates in Idaho. If approved as requested, an average electric residential customer in Idaho would see a 5.3 percent or

"Fear of missing out" might be heightened by some people's growing reliance on social networks, according to a survey of social media behavior commissioned by Los Angeles-based social media platform creator MyLife.com and conducted by Harris in the

T-Mobile, which has struggled in the past to lure customers away from the Big Three wireless companies, is embarking on a risky new strategy: stealing iPhone customers from its competitors without offering an iPhone of its own.The Bellevue-based

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken one of the first detailed looks into how Alzheimer's disease disrupts coordination among several of the brain's networks. The results include some of the earliest of on