Ascension Snowboards Inc., a new snowboard manufacturer in Post Falls, hopes its products will do more than shred the slopes. It hopes they also will help it carve out a niche in the highly-competitive snowboard industry by meeting demand for that

Eleven loan officers have left Washington Mutual Bank here to help open a new loan office in downtown Spokane for Melville, N.Y.-based American Home Mortgage Corp., and the company is looking to open an office in the Coeur dAlene area American is

Walla Walla-based Banner Bank, which operates three branches here, says its eyeing several locations for additional branches here as part of an aggressive regional expansion plan.Banner plans to open four new branches here in the next two and

T.W. Clark Construction LLC, of Spokane Valley, has won a contract to build a roughly $30 million condominium tower that Tacoma-based Prium Companies LLC plans to develop in downtown Spokane.The 15-story, 345,000-square-foot tower will include

Living trusts can be a useful estate planning tool, but are being used here as a ruse by unscrupulous salespeople to persuade seniors to buy bogus trusts and investment products, government and private attorneys say.Living-trust scams, which on

Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative says it has cancelled its lease agreement with the owner of the Quail Run Professional campus, where it planned to relocate its South Hill clinic, and now is looking for a new site.Last June, Group Health

Thin crusts arent the only trend in the pizza industry these daysso are thin margins.Though pizza sales in the Spokane area remain hearty, rising costs and increased competition are making those in the industry wonder whether the pie is big

A fast-growing Portland-based freight hauler and courier has opened a 70-employee regional headquarters here and also has established four Eastern Washington branches, with 35 more workers, that report to the Spokane Valley operation.The Group

Construction activity is expected to pick up soon at the Wandermere Business Park, which a company led by Spokane contractor Dick Vandervert started developing last year.A 20,000-square-foot office building and a Bank of Whitman branch both are

Liberty Lake Investments LLC, of Hayden, Idaho, says its proposing to build a big residential and commercial development on 100 acres of land in eastern Liberty Lake.Tentatively called Liberty Village, the master-planned community is expected