Spokane International Airport will proceed with $9.5 million worth of capital improvement projects next year, despite having suffered revenue declines since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It has put a temporary hold, however, on another $5.2 in of

Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC, the Spokane-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, is planning a $4 million manufacturing upgrade at its East Spokane plant, says Tony Bonanzino, the companys president and CEO.The company is in the final stages a

Flat Spin Media LLC, a young Spokane multimedia company, has moved its operations into a 51,000-square-foot building owned by Visiontec Inc., a contract circuit-board manufacturer located at 10920 E. Sprague in the Spokane Valley.Craig Sorenson,

The states largest dental benefits provider, Seattle-based Washington Dental Service, has chosen Colville as the site for a new call center thats initially expected to create nearly 30 new customer-service and claims-processing jobs in that the

With the opening of the large Sportsmans Warehouse store near the Spokane Valley Mall late last summer, another big-league player has taken the field in what appears to be an increasingly competitive market for sporting goods here.For the most

Ask John Bole, CEO of Yokes Washington Foods Inc., the secret to the success of the Spokane-based chain of nine grocery stores, and hell tell you the story about the floral department manager who wanted to sell Beanie Babies. The store it

With cameras and tape recorder in hand, Bob Rowan boarded a plane last week for rural Holmes County, Ohio, to spend seven days among the Amish.It was one of countless trips that Rowan, who creates multimedia productions of photos, words, and for

An unusual offer by the Washington state Department of Transportation to exchange almost four acres of property on North Ruby Street for the construction work on two projects has failed to produce any offers acceptable to DOT. The projects include

The city of Cheney expects early next month to hire a contractor to design the backbone of a high-capacity fiber-optic network that eventually could bring broadband computer and telecommunications lines to its 4,000 utility customers, including

CXT Inc., the Spokane Valley manufacturer of concrete railroad ties and prefabricated concrete buildings, has posted signs at its administrative office building and a nearby building identified as a concrete crossing-panel production plant offering