On a recent Saturday morning, Gil Peckham barely had turned the sign at his Spokane Valley shop to Open from Closed when a patron walked in. Got any Star Wars cars yet? the eager young man asked.The question might have sounded it

Proponents of a spate of proposed Spokane-area sports facilities have huddled on the sidelines to strategize against their newest adversarya slow economy that has spiked their hopes of building two multimillion-dollar recreational complexes here

After sustaining deep financial wounds in 2001, Avista Corp. is aiming to take some important steps in the first quarter toward recovery.First, though, the Spokane company, hurt over the last two years by precipitous wholesale energy prices and

A new buffalo hunt has begun.

J-U-B Engineers Inc., a large, Boise-based civil engineering firm that has offices in Coeur dAlene and Spokane, has spun off its Web-design operations into a separate, Coeur dAlene-based company called Civic Mind Media Inc.Civic Mind Media a