Avista Corp. has decided against constructing a 36,000-square-foot office building near its Mission Avenue headquarters and instead will look to lease or buy office space that would be near enough to its main campus that staff members could go back

With home sales down, retail sales flat, and credit tightening, Spokane and Inland Northwest businesses have plenty of reason to be cautious, economic observers here say.Its a time for businesses to stick to what they do best, says Steve for

Avista Utilities will start work in July on the first of four generator upgrades at its Noxon Rapids Dam, located on the Clark Fork River in Montana, that are expected to cost a total of $35 million.Each of the four generators, which were in a

Avista Corp. will pay $2.1 million of a $25 million settlement reached recently in a Montana District Court case involving alleged damage to buildings from a leaking reservoir and contamination of groundwater caused by waste-slurry reservoirs at it

Avista Utilities expects to reach an agreement soon to tie up a site to build its first wind-turbine farm and also has released generating-capacity and cost figures for the planned facility.The Spokane company says in its recent annual report

More Spokane and Coeur dAlene-area businesses are looking closely at selling goods and services in the booming oil-sands development area in Alberta after they sent representatives on a trade mission recently to Edmonton and Calgary, the two a on

After more than 500 people turned out March 18 at a public hearing on Spokane Countys potential purchase of Spokane Raceway Park, the county commissioners are taking a close look at buying the facility and the acreage around it.Commissioner

Itron Inc. hopes that a $480 million utility-meter contract it landed with Southern California Edison in Decemberby far the biggest contract in the history of the company and the utility-meter industryis just the first such enormous Southern to

The Institute for Systems Medicine Planning Authority has named a strategic advisory board of top national health-care research figures to help guide its efforts to set up an organization that will advance the application of and research into the a

Avista Utilities is studying ways to link with and gain benefits from a $5 billion power line that a California utility has proposed to build between Northern California and British Columbia by late 2015.The California utility, Pacific Gas and