A broad-based group of Spokane businesspeople and civic leaders headed by Biomedex Inc. President George Coleman and Avista Corp. executive Pete Kerwien has begun putting together what is envisioned to be a several-hundred-acre technology park near

Docent Inc., a Silicon Valley company that cut some of its teeth while based in Spokane as Stanford Testing Systems Inc., has grown to a market capitalization fluctuating around $1 billion following a highly successful initial public offering in to

Perhaps the biggest challenge Liberty Lake-based Telect Inc. faces as it evolves from a family-owned business to a Nasdaq-traded public company is managing its phenomenal growth, which continues to gobble up manufacturing capacity as fast as its

Spokanes biggest billboard company believes it has new ammunition it can use to plead its case at hearings scheduled by both the city of Spokane and Spokane County next month that could lead to the eventual elimination of most of the metro the on

Washington State University at Spokane has created a new position here thats expected to help researchersboth at Spokane-area colleges and in the health-care industry hereidentify new biomedical technologies and begin the long process of to 1

In an aggressive new public-private partnership, a Spokane biotechnology company has joined with a Lolo, Mont., biotech manufacturer and the University of Idaho to launch a venture that expects to commercialize an innovative method for extracting U

When it came to their own paychecks, the executives of Spokane-area publicly traded companies collectively fared much better in the most recent fiscal year than did their employers.An annual Journal of Business analysis of the compensation of 75

MacKay Manufacturing Inc., a longtime Spokane precision machine shop, says it broke ground earlier this month on a 10,000-square-foot expansion of its Spokane Valley plant in an effort to keep up with growing demand for its work.The expansion, a

The founder of the big Sylvan Learning Centers franchise chain is revving up another educational venture, this one based in Spokane, that expects within five years to be operating nearly 800 neighborhood tutoring centers nationally and to have of a

Liberty Lake-based Telect Inc., the telecommunications-equipment manufacturer thats seemingly always in a growth spurt, has opened a plant in Brazil, is spending millions to expand at its campus here, and is hiring hundreds of workers to handle a