The amount of air cargo handled at Spokane International Airport grew at a healthy 5.7 percent clip during the first 10 months of this year, signaling a possible turnaround following three years of stagnation.We had a very good October, and a

Greg Paolino steers a golf cart into one of the eerily quiet pot rooms at Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.s former Mead Works smelter and points to whats left of a once-hulking potline thats being dismantled and sold off, piece by a cold, the

Lifestream Technologies Inc., the Post Falls-based maker of cholesterol monitors, says its product shipments in its most-recent quarter shot up 108 percent over the year-earlier period.The small health-care device maker declined to disclose or

Telect Inc., once the Spokane areas technology darlingwith skyrocketing revenue and rapid employee growthhas put its nearly 200,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing plant here up for lease, saying it no longer needs such a large of

Invigorated by new leadership and armed with new strategies for recruiting employers here, the Spokane Area Economic Development Council says interest in the Spokane area is on the rise.A year ago, the EDC was talking with about six to 10 that

AmericanWest Bancorp., the Spokane-based parent of AmericanWest Bank, says it has accepted an offer to sell the former Ice World USA skating rink in Liberty Lake that it acquired through foreclosure three years ago.The skating rink, which in at

The high-tech surgery suites are already in use, birthing beds are being installed in the motel-room-like birthing rooms, and final touches are under way in the new, 47-bed neonatal intensive care unit.Sacred Heart Medical Centers $100 west a

The Asian-American population in Spokane County jumped 28 percent during the 1990s, well outpacing the 16 percent overall population growth here, a new study shows.The analysis, an in-depth socioeconomic profile of Asian Americans in Spokane by

An index intended to show the direction in which Spokanes economy is headed has reached its highest point possible, providing the strongest and most positive interpretation of the local economic trends since the index was created, its author

The University of Phoenix, a national private university that opened a small learning center in Spokane last year, says it now plans to have a 12,000-square-foot building constructed for it here.The Phoenix-based school, which serves about at a