Three and a half years after Washington State University launched its Sleep and Performance Research Center here, the lab has conducted studies for a host of clients while securing grants and contracts to cover its $1.5 million annual center, in a

AmericanWest Bancorp, of Spokane, satisfied a Nasdaq rule April 9 when it issued a press release saying its 10-K annual report included an auditor's opinion that contained "a going concern qualification."In such a qualification, an auditor says

Direct travel spending in Washington state totaled $15.7 billion in 2008, up 5.7 percent from 2007, although after adjusting for inflation, travel spending decreased by 0.1 percent, says a report to the Washington Legislature.The report, by Dean

Avista Corp., which operates one of the nation's oldest and biggest wood-fired generating plants at Kettle Falls, Wash., says it would be interested in the results of a planned University of Idaho study of the use of a crop-drying trailer to dry an

Itron Inc., of Spokane, and Verizon Wireless, of Basking Ridge, N.J., have announced a joint marketing agreement under which they will work together to develop secure, two-way communications for utilities that want to employ Itron's advanced to as

Job losses here in the current recession have progressed thus far along a timeline that's similar to that in the recession of 2001-2002, with the worst numbers coming in January and February this year as they did in January and February 2002, says