Sizzling new cell-phone games, burning-fast video transmissions, and hotly sought-after messaging services have touched off an explosion in global cell-phone manufacturing, giving Agilent Technologies Inc.s Liberty Lake research-and-development a

When Kent Williamson and S.D. Meeks launched K.D. Steel Inc. in August 1988, the Spokane company had the humblest of beginnings.We started up with a $200 pickup, and we slept on the job sites for the first couple of years, says Williamson,

A proposed hotel-motel room fee that would fund additional tourism marketing could double the annual economic impact here from conventions and sports events to $105 million from $54.5 million now, backers claim.The room fee would increase the a

Editors Note: When a new patient begins rehabilitation in an institution after a serious injury or illness, it can help to get to know a staff member who has gone through rehab. St. Lukes Rehabilitation Institute here employs a handful of who a

The number of bank robberies in Spokane County has plummeted by 73 percent so far this year following extensive efforts by banks and law-enforcement agencies to curb and respond to such heists.As of late last week, robbers had hit just eight 30

A lot of things have broken right for Potlatch Corp., helping the Spokane-based forest-products company in its successful quest to return to profitability this year, Chairman and CEO L. Pendleton Siegel told securities analysts earlier this prices

Gold Reserve Inc., of Spokane, has completed a $14.15 million (Cdn.) private placement to raise funds to develop further its Brisas gold deposit in Venezuela and to do a feasibility study on the mining operation it plans to launch there.The in

Dont just call it The Boat by the River, call it The Speedboat by the River.The Spokane Public Facilities Districts preliminary design for a convention center expansion is much like the racy shape of a speedboat, with the prow angled toward

Terrible congestion at Sea-Tac International Airport and the prospect for improvement in U.S. air-cargo tonnages have Spokane International Airport positioning itself for future air-cargo growth.In June, an Asian air-cargo carrier inquired its

How hot is the Spokane-Kootenai county housing market? Smokin.Through the first 33 weeks of this year, building departments in the Spokane and Coeur dAlene areas issued permits for 32 percent more homes than in the year-earlier period, when