Just 3,350 bankruptcy petitions were filed in Eastern Washington last year, abruptly ending a five-year trend of filings hovering near or above the 10,000 mark. The 2006 total represented a 71 percent decrease from the record 11,506 petitions

When the Spokane Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau held its annual meeting Jan. 17, little was said about a consultants report that found problems between the bureau and the Spokane Convention center staff in their efforts to market public

Inland Empire Trades Credit Union, of Spokane, like many other small credit unions across the nation, is working hard to stay afloat in a competitive marketplace filled with banks and larger credit unions that provide similar services.What is a

Legislation aimed at providing guardianship protection and protection from unqualified individuals selling living trusts, as well as the biennial battle to procure more money for health-care providers, top the retirement-related agenda at the 2007

Premier Manufacturing Inc., of Liberty Lake, mostly a precision sheet-metal fabricator, is changing ownership and moving to a new Liberty Lake location, both effective Jan. 31.Kevin Collins, who owns Premier with his wife, Keri, and Chuck says

A Bend, Ore., man is developing a 114-lot subdivision just east of Pinehurst, Idaho, thats estimated to have a value of more than $51 million when completed.Mark Phillips, a Realtor with Coeur dAlene-based Century 21 Beutler & Associates, a

Sunwest Management Inc., a Salem, Ore., senior-housing management company with holdings in 25 states, has submitted site plans to the city of Post Falls for a proposed $14 million senior-housing complex.The development would include a facility,

Max J. Kuney Co., of Spokane, has been awarded a $65 million contract to replace two parallel bridges on busy Oregon state Route 99E that cross Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Portland.Rebuilding the spans, which are called the Martin Luther a

Quincey Edmonds, of Newman Lake, has filed a preliminary-plat application and zone-change request for a proposed $10 million residential development in northeastern Spokane Valley.Edmonds would develop that project, called Valley Coach Estates,

Although uncontrollable factors such as the weather and the international market again will play major roles in the Inland Northwests agricultural picture in 2007, early indicators are favorable for another positive year.The wheat industry, a