Columbia Bank, of Tacoma, plans to move its Spokane regional office and downtown branch into the historic Fernwell Building in mid-June.The bank, which acquired eight Bank of Whitman branches last year when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. of

An investor group with a sizable percentage of stock in Ambassadors Group Inc., the Spokane-based student-travel program provider, says it has lost confidence in the company's leadership and is proposing its own three candidates to Ambassadors' LP,

North Idaho aerospace manufacturers have launched an effort to form a statewide coalition and develop strategies to attract and keep aerospace-related business in Idaho.The idea for the recently created Idaho Aerospace Alliance, which has a and

As part of an effort to ensure it remains a competitive player in the growing global aerospace industry, Kaiser Aluminum Corp. is making ongoing investments to improve the efficiency and capacity of its Spokane Valley Trentwood Works plant that new

The U.S. stock market reacts daily to a wide set of developments and news. Current issues like the possibility of war between Israel and Iran, the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, changing U.S. employment data, and household formation numbers all to

Following another slow construction year in Kootenai County, some with ties to the industry are hopeful that public works and infrastructure projects will generate growth in construction activity in 2012 and further into the future.Construction