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Product developer to move to big Liberty Lake complex

Design Source Solutions to expand, plans to hire 15 more people this year

February 2, 2012

Design Source Solutions Inc., a Liberty Lake-based product development and manufacturing firm, expects to move this month into a newly upgraded space in the Meadowwood Technology Campus, also in Liberty Lake.The company will occupy almost 5,200

Kalispels look to expand Fatburger franchise here

Economic development agency aims for growth outside current holdings

February 2, 2012

Mike McLean

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians is looking to expand its Fatburger franchise, starting with an outlet in Spokane.Representatives of the Kalispel Tribal Economic Authority met recently with city planners to look into opening a Fatbuger restaurant a

Hotel completes two-year, $4.6 million update project

DoubleTree adds Hilton to name, capping off upgrades

February 2, 2012

Mike McLean

The DoubleTree hotel downtown has completed a two-year, $4.6 million update topped with a name change that references its parent company.Mike McLeod, the hotel's general manager, says the name change to Double Tree by Hilton Spokane City Center,

A sharper security view

February 2, 2012

Treva Lind

Operating out of a renovated fire station in Cheney, Cascadia Video Products LLC plans to deploy a newer technology on a wider scale for closed-circuit security systems that its owners say produce high-definition images on par with Blu-ray disc for

Farm Credit refund hits new record

Coop's stockholders get patronage checks totaling $53 million

February 2, 2012

Kim Crompton

Northwest Farm Credit Services, the big Spokane-based ag-lending cooperative, says it's sending out to its stockholders patronage refund checks totaling $53 million.FDS Board Chairman Kevin Riel said in a press release that this year's refund is

Bankruptcy filings fall in Inland Northwest

Spokane County's drop outpaces district; Cd'A court sees slight decline

February 2, 2012

Linn Parish

There were almost 1,000 fewer bankruptcy filings in Eastern Washington last year than in the previous year, the second consecutive year of declining activity, year-end data show.Consumers and businesses filed 6,214 bankruptcy petitions last year

Revett posts record-year production

Mining company also reports increased cash flow from its Troy Mine

February 2, 2012

Treva Lind

Spokane Valley-based mining company Revett Minerals Inc. said it had total production of 1.29 million ounces of silver and 10.65 million pounds of copper last year at its Troy Mine, near Troy, Mont.The full-year production amounts for the mine's

Incoming residents increase

Licenses surrendered here from other states rise, reversing trend

February 2, 2012

Mike McLean

Out-of-state driver's licenses surrendered in Spokane County increased in 2011 for the second consecutive year following three years of steep declines, but economic analysts have varying views on what that means for the economy here.One analyst

Recycling rate spiked here in '10

Spokane County outpaced state as a whole, ecology department figures show

February 2, 2012

Linn Parish

For the first time in the 20-plus years that the Washington state Department of Ecology has generated recycling statistics, Spokane County residents recycled more waste than they threw away in 2010, according to figures released late last month by

Snail mail could get a bit slower

USPS sorting center here, however, isn't a closure candidate

February 2, 2012

Chey Scott

Changes the U.S. Postal Service plans to put into effect this May that could lengthen the delivery window for First Class mail likely won't have much of an impact on business customers here who are sending out large quantities of mail in that local