Cooks Dream, a cookware shop on the South Hill, has bought Jays Bosch Kitchen Center, in the Spokane Valley, and has renamed both businesses Cooks Dream, an Authorized Bosch Dealer.Rick Wilcox, president of Cooks Dream Inc., the parent

Commercial driver-education schools here are expecting a wave of new business this fall as local school districts hike the prices they charge for drivers training or drop those programs altogether.To handle the anticipated demand, one local a

Bio-OriGyn LLC, of Spokane, has signed two pacts through which it expects to bring to market its first consumer product for human infertility. One of the agreements is with Unicep Packaging Inc., of Sandpoint, which will mix and fill about of a

Target Corp., the big Minneapolis-based discount retailer, has opened a district office in Spokane and is contemplating adding additional Target stores within the newly created district.Linda Heinen, Targets district team leader here, says in

Buck Knives Inc., which this spring said it was thinking about moving its headquarters and manufacturing plant to Post Falls, now has said it will stay put in Southern California for at least two more years, according to news reports.Two San a

Clarkston, Wash.-based defense contractor Isothermal Systems Research Inc. has leased a building in Liberty Lake and plans to begin moving its corporate headquarters there next month. The company expects to employ 120 to 150 people in the facility

ICT Group Inc.s big Spokane Valley call-center operation is in the process of hiring 100 additional workers here to handle customer relations for a new nationwide wireless-telephone service thats being launched by Virgin Group, the quirky and a

A former Avista Communications executive has launched a Post Falls company that provides training in telecommunications technologies. The company, Northlight Institute of Technology Inc., was founded by Terry Jett, who previously was vice of for

FirstBank Northwest Corp., a Lewiston-based bank that opened a branch office in Liberty Lake in 1999, plans to open a commercial-loan center near downtown Spokane this summer.FirstBank plans to open the center at the beginning of August, and or

Construction could begin this summer on 40 to 50 high-end homes in the Black Rock golf-resort development near Coeur dAlene Lake, developer Marshall Chesrown says.Although no building permits have been issued for homes at Black Rock, Chesrown