The Spokane-based Northwest Mining Association will hold its annual convention Dec. 2-7 at the Spokane Convention Center, which is expected to draw about 2,500 attendees from across the U.S. and internationally.The association alternates the and

Associated Painters Inc., the Spokane-based commercial- and military-aircraft painting company, has signed a land-lease agreement with Spokane International Airport and plans to build a second hangar near the airport for expanded production by next

Fatbeam LLC, a Post Falls-based provider of broadband fiber-optic networks, has an estimated $2.7 million fiber-optic cable installation project well under way for a network that will extend between Coeur d'Alene and Liberty Lake.Fatbeam Greg a

Itron Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of energy-management equipment and systems, says Southern California Gas Co. will install nearly 1.5 million of Itron's natural gas meters and more than 600,000 of its gas regulators.Southern California a

Command Center Inc., a Post Falls-based temporary-staffing company with 52 offices in the U.S., has reported a record third-quarter revenue of $28.4 million, up 13.7 percent from nearly $25 million in the year-earlier quarter.Its revenue of over

Hart Capital Management Inc., a Spokane-based investment firm, says its Inland Northwest Index of publicly traded companies in the Inland Northwest rose 14.3 percent for the third quarter, under an index methodology similar to that of the Standard