Rob Elmer says he recently bought out James W. Elmer Construction Co., a company his father, Jim Elmer, founded in Spokane in 1991.The younger Elmer says he grew up working in the company during the summers and was hired on full time in 2002 as

The city of Spokane Valley has issued a building permit for Scafco Grain Systems to construct a $3 million building addition at its facility at 5400 E. Broadway.The project includes constructing a two-story, 5,300-square-foot office addition and

A Washington state legislative budgetary decision earlier this year to divert funds from an account used to provide low-interest loans to local government entities and taxing districts has brought at least a temporary halt to millions of dollars of

Coeur d'Alene-based Peak Health & Wellness Center has broken ground on a $4.2 million indoor tennis center next to its Hayden facility, says Gary Retter, manager and part owner of the fitness club.The site for the 44,000-square-foot tennis is at

Trindera Engineering Inc., a Coeur d'Alene-based provider of electrical and control system engineering and consulting services, has opened an office in downtown Spokane.On Aug. 1, Trindera Engineering began operating its Spokane office in a at a

Since the mid-1980s, unrestrained household spending has damaged American family finances, despite the fact that globalization and technological change have caused consumer prices to fall widely, asserts a sociologist at Queens College in New York

The June Mortgage Monitor report released earlier this month by Jacksonville, Fla.-based Lender Processing Services found a nearly 10 percent spike in the national delinquency rate in a month-to-month comparison. The company's mortgage report in