Coldwater Creek Inc., which increased its spending on national magazine advertising by almost 80 percent last year, plans to boost its budget for national promotions in its current fiscal year by nearly a third, to $32 million, in a national also

Avista Utilities plans to launch new energy-conservation programs for business customers this summer as it moves deeper into a three-year drive to delay the need to develop a thermal generating plant.The effort will include agreements under pay

The organization thats working to establish an Institute for Systems Medicine here says a collaboration has been formed to do research on bioinformatics and medical informatics, both of which the institute would use heavily.The organization,

Wheatland Bank, coming off double-digit growth in assets, deposits, and loans in 2006, has found tentative locations to add three branches here.The bank has signed letters of intent for the three sites, but doesnt want to disclose yet where a

When the Spokane Public Facilities District asked the city of Spokane last week to condemn land on the block south of its downtown convention facilities, it did so with the conviction that it will need the land and with the belief that an unusual a

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will hold two sessions on Thursday, Feb. 8, to receive public comments on Avista Corp.s applications to relicense its five Spokane River dams.Both sessions, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 6 p.m. 9

A buzz saw of adverse market conditions cut into the lumber industrys production this year, and the industry doesnt expect things to get better until late 2007 or early 2008.U.S. housing starts plunged to an anticipated 1.88 million units a

Avista Corp., which has a long history of buying and selling energy, wants to sell its Avista Energy trading subsidiary.While Avista Corp. hasnt said that in its press releases, it has talked with securities analysts about its desire to of L.

Even though Coldwater Creek Inc. delivered a gift bag full of higher profits, stronger sales, and other financial goodies just before Thanksgiving, the Sandpoint-based retailer isnt enjoying much good will from Wall Street this holiday fashion 10

Interest in natural-gas drilling in Eastern Washington has shot up after an exploration company executive said a drilling project near Mattawa, Wash., confirmed that the Columbia Basin holds natural gas in a potentially productive type of geologic