The U.S. Postal Service has brought in a team of expert managers it hopes will improve relations between workers and management in the Spokane Postal District and end recent complaints about service problems, says Al DeSarro, a Denver-based for the

In an attempt to tap into $700 million newly available from the federal government for important freight corridors and international border crossings, the state Department of Transportation is making a case to spend some of the money on to U.S. new

A zone-change request now before the Spokane County hearing examiner could make it easier for a local partnership called Jolt Development to develop an industrial park and commercial sites on the western end of a West Plains property that Inland &

Bendigo International Inc., a swimwear company based in Hayden Lake, Idaho, has been merged with a Canadian sportswear company, Chipmink, to form a new company, H & H International LLC, that will offer an expanded product line.H & H will sell of

Sunshine Minting Co., a Coeur dAlene concern, has added 25 workers recently as it has ramped up to fulfill a five-year contract from the U.S. Mint to produce rounds of silver for collector coins, says Randy Hardy, the Idaho companys general the

Eight Spokane employees of Providence Health Plans are among the 170 Providence workers expected to be laid off because of the planned sale of Sisters of Providence Health Systems Washington insurance operations to Regence BlueShield on Jan. 1, a

The sale of Spokanes Camp Automotive Inc. to rapidly growing, publicly owned Lithia Motors Inc., of Medford, Ore., wrapped up in mid-October, but Phil Camp, who remains at the head of the Camp dealerships here, says changes wont be evident in a

The city of Spokane plans to take a look at the potential to encourage property owners to assemble adjacent vacant pieces of land into parcels of 10 to 25 acreslarge enough to attract new and expanding businesses.The idea is for the city to an

State and local government agencies plan transportation projects in the Spokane area over the next three years that could add up to as much as $220 million in work.That total, from the Spokane Regional Transportation Councils recently adopted

After one year at the helm of Mount Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park, Kirk Duncan is confident that the year-old ski hill operation he heads is on track.Hired in September 1997 by Mount Spokane 2000, the nonprofit organization that won the rights to