The Spokane County Fair & Expo Center has created a master plan outlining roughly $8.7 million worth of expansions and upgrades at its facilities here.The plan was drawn up to clarify the fairgrounds long-range goals and to provide information

Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC, the Spokane-based allergy-products maker, has signed two agreements that result from the companys ongoing efforts to diversify its activities, says Bill Bauernschmidt, Hollister-Stiers vice president of part of

Amy Carson is something of an alchemist. While she doesnt turn lead into gold, she does transform wood from old docks and barns and rustic items from Third World countries into simple, elegant, modern furniture and light fixtures.In a corner a

A shift in the supply and demand for workers has forced staffing agencies here and elsewhere to alter the way they do business.Through the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, many agencies prospered mainly by supplying temporary or contract whom a

Airway Heights LLC, a Spokane-based development company, has proposed a 225-acre mixed-use development in the city of Airway Heights that eventually could include up to 1,200 housing units, a neighborhood shopping center, and community parks, the

The group assigned to examine options for expanding the city of Spokanes convention facilities expects now to recommend that the facilities be expanded to the eastjust south of the DoubleTree Hotel Spokane City Centerrather than on the block

Spokane-based Cominco American Inc. expects to call for bids this month on the first parts of a $70 million project to reopen the Pend Oreille zinc and lead mine near Metaline Falls, Wash., says Dave Godlewski, an environmental manager for Cominco

Analysts covering Spokane-based Key Tronic Corp. claim that the keyboard maker, with its new focus on contract design and manufacturing, appears to have executed a successful turnaround and should post increasingly positive earnings in its current

Fresh Air Ag LLC, a Cheney company launched by a group of Spokane County grass-seed growers and other businessmen to find alternatives to field burning, plans to begin within six weeks compressing waste straw into densely packed bales that can be a

Farmers & Merchants Bank, of Spokane, plans to open a branch inside the Albertsons Inc. store at Cedar Canyon Village at the southeast corner of 57th Avenue and Regal Street, says John Tombari, the banks chief operating officer.The bank to &