Avista Utilities will begin work shortly on a $4 million project that will replace the spill gates in its diversion dam on the main channel of the Spokane River directly west of the Division Street bridge.The dam, which is in Riverfront Park, a

After closing four supermarkets in recent months, Tidymans LLC plans to build three stores in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene market in the next three years while remodeling six or seven others. The plan is part of a multistep rebuilding process that

Before long, every American soldier in a battlefield situation will wear a personal physiological status monitor that will send commanders radio telemetry readings on the soldiers condition.The device will provide readings on the soldiers a

Temporary-help agencies here are enjoying an upsurge in what they call their direct-hire business, in which they refer job candidates to employers who want to fill positions on a permanent, rather than a temporary, basis.The change began to

An Avista Corp. subsidiary that manages other businesses bills for utilities and other facility-related services is posting stronger results, working to add to its already imposing market share, and coming closer to making a profit.The Avista

Crews have erected about 75 percent of the 411 steel towers needed for a $175 million, 84-mile high-voltage power line between Grand Coulee Dam and the Bell Substation, near Mead, and the project will become much more visible to Spokane-area which

Hotel room-tax revenues jumped sharply in Spokane County through the first five months of this year, and that and other indicators have tourism officials hoping that the visitor industry will snap all the way back this year from the losses it after

The Spokane area added far more jobs in both April and May than it had in any month since June 2001, the latest figures from the Washington state Department of Employment Security show.Some 3,800 more people had jobs in May than in the month, a

A Canadian company thats proposing to build a high-capacity power line from northern Alberta to Eastern Oregon says an $80 million-to-$100 million power-conversion station near Spokane would do much to optimize benefits from the line.The says

Dan Mathews remembers how things were when he worked at an advertising agency before he and partner Jeff Culver started the Focus Group Inc. in 1997.Mathews recalls that the agencys creative team would have its first meeting with a client, to