A New York-based company that provides front-line sales and customer-support people to small technology companies is opening a Spokane office that will be headed by its CEO and from which it plans to market itself on the West Coast.The company,

A new compensation survey by Associated Industries of the Inland Northwest has found that employers here offered the lowest bump in starting pay for entry-level workers this year than at any time in the surveys 14-year history.Only 28 percent

The city of Spokane quietly has begun building a case for a dramatically different way to fund street repairs here.Spurned last spring by voters, who overwhelmingly rejected a property-tax-supported bond issue to fix the streets, and dubious to

Representatives from a German energy company and a Quincy, Wash., dairy farm met last month at the downtown Spokane offices of the Inland Northwest Technology Education Center, or Intec, to hash out a plan to turn cow manure into electrical power a

Sacred Heart Medical Centers Inland Neuroscience & Spine Center, which opened last April with a strong emphasis on the treatment of strokes, now is developing a reputation for spine care.The center, which occupies about 6,000 square feet of a

Kim Hotstart Manufacturing Co., a longtime Spokane maker of electric pre-heaters for diesel engines, says that thanks to a series of big breaks this summer, a relatively new product it developed for railroad locomotives is on track to bring in $1 a

Spokane-based Biomedex Inc. has launched a subsidiary that hopes by next year to begin selling health-related products in China. The new unit, called Biomedex International LLC, already has hired an international marketing manager who has in in

The economic slowdown apparently didnt staunch the flow of money to top-level Inland Northwest executives last year.Executives of publicly traded companies in Spokane and North Idaho, on average, saw their paychecks grow a hearty 7 percent in

Logan Industries Inc., the Spokane contract electronics manufacturer that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last spring, has emerged from that reorganization filing after resolving a dispute with a key lender.U.S. Bankruptcy Court John

Biomedex Inc., a young Spokane biotech company, has launched a subsidiary here that will do pharmaceutical compounding for both consumers and health-care providers.The subsidiary, called FirstPharma, will be located within Biomedexs in the a