Mike Taylor, former partner and president at Spokane-based Taylor Engineering Inc., has become the city of Spokane's new director of engineering services, replacing Tom Arnold, who left to take a job at the Spokane office of Coffman Engineers "I I

Hydrafab Northwest Inc., a growing Spokane-based metal fabricating company, has leased a 16,000-square-foot space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park and has moved there from a 9,000-square-foot leased facility at 4809 E. Trent.Hydrafab is

Jeffery Johnson and Kelly Snyder, co-owners of S&S Engine Remanufacturing Co. and Jones Automotive Engines Inc., have combined the two companies and now are operating them under the name S&J Engines Inc.Also, Snyder says he and Johnson are in of

The Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation has raised $1.2 million to replace that center's mammography coach and related equipment.Since 1999, the Sacred Heart Women's Health Center coach has been traveling to Inland Northwest businesses, and a

The lumber industry has been hammered this year, and a downturn in demand that has hurt the industry likely will persist for another year, until the U.S. economy and the nation's housing market improve, industry representatives say.Shawn Church,

Harcon Inc., of Spokane, has been awarded a $3.6 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to improve the juvenile fish bypass system at Little Goose Dam on the lower Snake River. The work is scheduled to start this month, with the bulk

The Spokane office of Marlton, N.J.-based Hill International Inc. has moved to a larger leased space to provide room for growth, says Kelly Reynolds, the construction-management firm's marketing coordinator here.The company began operating in in

Proto Technologies Inc., a Liberty Lake-based rapid-prototyping company, says it has added four employees in the last two months and has purchased a 3-D "printer" that allows it to create models using multiple materials at the same time.The of a

Intermountain Supply Inc., a roofing and vinyl siding wholesaler that operates at two Spokane Valley locations, says it has begun construction of a complex at a third site that will serve as its primary distribution center here.Owner Pamela says