With big new contracts in hand to provide concrete railroad ties for Union Pacific Railroad lines across the country, Spokane Valley-based CXT Inc. is spending $18 million to expand its plant in Nebraska and to build a new plant in Arizona.The

About 60 North Central High School sophomores, with the help of their science teacher, two sizable grants, and publication funding from Spokane Valley-based Itron Inc., have produced the first-ever Journal of Science at the Spokane high the highly

Bigelow Gulch Road, various bridge construction projects, and initial plans to create a northwest connector between the West Plains, Nine Mile Road, and eventually to U.S. 395 are the big-ticket items in Spokane Countys recently adopted plan.

F5 Networks Inc., the Seattle-based maker of computer networking equipment, says its expanding its Liberty Lake plant by about 5,000 square feet, and is adding employees there.The company, which opened a facility here in 2000 in the Liberty &

Big commercial customers at Sterling Savings Bank soon will be able to get up-to-the-minute transaction details on their checking accounts via a package of Internet-based tools. At U.S. Bank, business customers will be able to make deposits at own

Researchers at Washington State University have developed a new variety of soft-white wheatprevious varieties traditionally have been exported for noodle productionthat they believe will appeal to U.S. makers of cookies and crackers.Called

A Spokane company called Mirabeau Point LLC plans to develop as many as four large office and commercial buildings on an 11.5-acre site at the Mirabeau Point corporate and community development in Spokane Valley, with work on the first one slated a

One piece of the new Medicare prescription-drug plan thats slated to take effect next January provides an incentive to employers to continue providing their own drug plans for retireesand some big employers here say they plan to take advantage

Spokanes budding University District could well become a thriving center for research and development over the next few years, and that, say proponents, could provide big economic-development benefits here.The district is home to Gonzaga and

Spokane Rock Products Inc., of Spokane Valley, is the apparent low bidder on a Washington state Department of Transportation project to resurface both legs of the Division-Ruby couplet here, from the Spokane River north to just beyond where the two