Environmental cleanup costs at Kaiser Aluminum Corp.s Trentwood rolling mill and shuttered Mead smelter will cost roughly $68 million, according to estimates from the Washington state Department of Ecology.Those estimates were disclosed in a

Seeking ways to expand their banking offerings, three of Spokanes biggest credit unions are stepping up their commercial lending efforts.Spokane Teachers Credit Union expects this spring to launch a business services department and roll out a

A partnership headed by Spokane contractor Mike Silvey plans to develop a Spokane Valley office park that will include three buildings and cost $2 million.The park, to be called River Rock Professional Center, is planned for the northeast of a

Spokane-based Washington Trust Bank has posted record net income for 2002, and crested $2 billion in assets by year-end. In its annual report, the bank reports 2002 net income of $24 million, up 11.7 percent from $21.5 million the previous That

Dan Morris doesnt know exactly where he wants to be in the future, but thinks he knows precisely what he needs to have to get there.The 32-year-old is working full time as a project manager at Spokane-based Itron Inc. and is attending Gonzaga

Spokane business owners Bill and Jane Sauther have bought an office building in Liberty Lake for $1.2 million and plan to move their advertising-production company there.Their company, Sauther & Associates Inc., does business as Banner and for

The Dreifus family, which owns and operates Sylvan Furniture Co., has agreed to sell five buildings it owns on the west 200 block between Riverside and Sprague avenues downtown. Sylvan Furniture had notified customers in a recent letter that to

Dix Corp., a longtime Spokane contractor, has started work on a $17 million portion of a fish-bypass project at Rocky Reach Dam, which is on the Columbia River near Wenatchee, Wash.The company also is under way on a $345,000 gantry-crane at in

For the third straight year, a record number of bankruptcy petitions were filed in Eastern Washington in 2002. The trend, experts say, is expected to continue this year.Last year, businesses and consumers filed 10,154 petitions seeking from in

Patients and visitors at Sacred Heart Medical Centers planned new Childrens Hospital will look to animal-themed signs to guide them through the facility after it opens.The signage in the new facility will include fish that will swim around