Community bankers here largely disagree with a recent national survey of their contemporaries that says 60 percent of such bankers believe there are too many branches in the markets they serve.Even Kurt Gustavel, president and chief operating a

A 40-year-old Spokane company that started as a corn-dog maker and evolved into a fruit-juice packager with revenues projected at $40 million this year says it will seek to make further acquisitions and eventually could become a national company, a

Spokane construction concern Max J. Kuney Co. has been awarded a $17.2 million state contract to build six bridges along the planned north-south freeway route beginning in August.All of the bridges are to be constructed north of Francis Avenue,

You get what you pay for.Spokesmen for three local companies that specialize in helping businesses to offer products and services on the Internet say thats often true in the expanding world of online sales.Tom Bloom, director of marketing

Premier Manufacturing Inc., a Liberty Lake precision sheet-metal fabricator, is withdrawing its application to the city of Liberty Lake to build a 75,000-square-foot building there, says Kevin Collins, one of three owners of the company.Collins

Sacred Heart Medical Center has begun staffing its intensive-care unit with certified critical-care specialists, called intensivists, who act as liaisons to other doctors who provide care in those units, and also to patients families.Kootenai

A 7-year-old Spokane-based ministry that operates healing rooms in 26 countries has purchased a second building near downtown, more than doubling its space here.Healing Rooms Ministries recently bought the former Glacier Mountain Floral at

While seeking ways to control heating and cooling costs at his new South Hill home, Chris Permann stumbled on what he hopes will become a multimillion-dollar business.A Wall Street Journal story Permann read about digital infrared thermal not a

Spokane developer Brian Main is heading two planned residential developments herea 55-duplex project in Airway Heights and an 80-home development in Spokane Valleythat together are expected to have a combined value of $36.5 million once is the

A Post Falls company has proposed building a $23 million, 99-unit condominium and town-house complex in the tiny North Idaho town of Pinehurst, located along Interstate 90 near Kellogg and Silver Mountain Resort.The company, Silver Creek LLC, a