San Diego-based Leap Wireless International Inc. has acquired a personal communications services (PCS) license from the Federal Communications Commission to offer digital wireless communications service in Spokane and will do so through its Cricket

Great Northern Financial Services Inc., a young Spokane company that sells financial products as an agent for others, has opened four offices so far this year, is planning to open an office in Boise next week, and is eyeing an expansion into next a

By day, Hands On Hobbies is a typical hobby store, selling model cars and airplanes, trains and train-set pieces, collectible card games, model rockets, hobby paint, science kits, stamp- and coin-collecting paraphernalia, and paint-by-number night

Spokane United Methodist Homes, a Spokane nonprofit corporation that oversees two big retirement communities here, has asked the Washington state Housing Finance Commission to issue $28.5 million in tax-exempt bonds to finance two construction and

Spokane surgeon Dr. Robert Golden has begun performing a minimally invasive, laparoscopic kidney-removal procedure here that allows living kidney donors to recover in much less time than typically has been required after conventional has performed

State National Bank, of Garfield, Wash., plans to open a second branch office in Spokane early next year and will move some of its administrative functions there from Garfield.Stan Yarbrough, State Nationals chief financial officer, declines a

Mark Leonard and Schade Towers LLC, the company he formed to own and redevelop the former Schade Brewery building on East Trent Avenue here, have filed suit in Spokane County Superior Court against United Security Bank, of Spokane.In the suit, a

Calkins Manufacturing Co., the longtime Spokane maker of boat trailers, plans to close its doors Dec. 31 and transfer the companys assets to its parent, Calkins Fluid Power Inc., also of Spokane.Jim Calkins, president of both companies, says a

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Inc. (PAML), of Spokane, quietly has evolved into a 900-employee regional medical laboratory with annual sales in the $50 million range.Those figures make PAML the largest privately held laboratory in on

Zak Designs Inc., of Airway Heights, plans to expand its facility here next year by 50,000 square feet, to crest $100 million in annual sales by the following year, and to make exports a bigger part of its business.Zak Designs, which designs and