The new city of Spokane Valley enjoys relatively affordable and newer housing, less poverty than the county as a whole, strong growth in retail sales, and a rising property-tax base.It also, however, could see volatile sales-tax revenue due to

Workers at MacKay Manufacturing Inc. will have to be happy with the fancy new piece of equipment being installed this month at the Spokane Valley precision machine shop. Valued at a few hundred thousand dollars, its the only major capital MacKay

A unit of a Houston-based renewable energy company is proposing to build a 182-megawatt wind-turbine electrical generation facility near Ellensburg in Central Washington.The unit, Sagebrush Power Partners LLC, in January submitted an to the to

The Washington state Department of Ecology has completed an investigation report on a former industrial site in East Spokane that is polluted with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.The site, at 708 N. Cook, had been used by now-defunct Spokane

A longtime grocery executive and his wife have bought the assets of Spokane candy maker Halletts Chocolate & Treat Factory, and plan to expand the business both here and into other Pacific Northwest markets.Charly and Sandy Owen bought the 23

In some respects, 2002 has been an extension of 2001, rife with bad economic news and uncertainty about the future. Still, the layoffs slowed, and there were substantive signs that Spokanes economy could improve in the coming year. New set up

There are threads of optimism in nearly every economic sector here as the year comes to a close. Whether Inland Northwest businesses can weave them into significant economic gains in 2003, only time will tell. At the least, the consensus opinion is

A 4-year-old Spokane company that cut its teeth assembling computer servers and workstations for schools and colleges, expects now to ride a wave of growth making digital video recorders for a big international electronics manufacturer.The PC a

When Dr. Tom Schaaf began fielding questions from family members of a patient he visited at Sacred Heart Medical Center recently, his answers were coming a little easier than usual.It was Schaafs first day doing his rounds using a hand-held a

MatriCal Inc., the young Spokane maker of devices used in pharmaceutical research, expects to launch at least two new products next year, while also further ramping up production of its big, robotically controlled, chemical-compound storage the in