John Hansen and business partner Barbara Chisholm, co-owners of five car wash plazas in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area, plan to open a sixth facility in June at the former Marie Callender's Restaurant site, in Spokane Valley. Vandervert Construction

Spokane Public Schools has accepted a $6.1 million bid from Meridian Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, to build a gymnasium at Salk Middle School, on Spokane's North Side, says Greg Brown, the district's director of capital projects. The total pro

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, has posted net margins of $3.8 million for 2013, up from $2.1 million in 2012. Also, as it had indicated previously, the cooperative implemented a 4.5 percent rate increase as of the begi

Hart Capital Management Inc., a Spokane-based investment firm, says the stock value of 14 publicly traded Inland Northwest companies, as measured in an overall index it compiles, rose 0.5 percent percent in the first quarter of 2014, lagging behind the St