Talk back to the robo-voice that answers Kootenai Electric Cooperatives telephone, and it might help you do what you want instead of rambling on about buttons you can push on your phone to reach your party.The Hayden-based power providers a

A stepped-up effort by the Washington state Department of Labor and Industries to identify safety violations in the residential framing industry has uncovered about 600 violations in L&Is Spokane region during the past 13 months.It appears as

Spokane International Airport has decided to move ahead with plans for a new multitenant speculative building in its business park on the eastern edge of the airport property.The Spokane Airport Board is seeking an architect to design the and a

C&L Development, a residential-development concern headed by longtime Spokane home builder Craig Condron, is eyeing development of a 247-lot residential subdivision on the West Plains.Condron says the company tentatively has agreed to buy 70 of

DEER PARKThis story is supposed to be about magazine peopleliterary types who create glossy publications with clever headlines and eye-catching illustrations.On a recent afternoon at Dara Park Peruvian Ranch, however, Alyson Stockham and of

Dr. Gerhard Muelheims, a cardiac electrophysiologist who joined Spokane Cardiology PS last month, soon will begin performing here an emerging catheter-based procedure for treating sufferers of atrial fibrillation, a potentially dangerous form of be

You dont have to go to college to learn your way around a kitchen.Nikki Sutton knew that. Since she always had wanted to be a chef and already was a pretty good cook, she didnt figure to go on in school after she completed high school. just

D.A. Davidson & Co., a Great Falls, Mont.-based stock brokerage, has lowered its estimate for Avista Corp.s earnings for 2002, based on a recent court judgment against the Spokane energy company.In a report on Avista released last week, D.A.

Cantu Investments LLC, of Spokane, has bought just over an acre of vacant land along Mullan Road in the Spokane Valley and is considering developing of a new office building there.Commercial real estate broker Dan Cantu, who is part-owner of on

Vehrs Inc., a Spokane wholesale wine distributor, has leased 50,000 square feet of office and warehouse space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park and plans to move its operations there from smaller quarters in the Valley. Vehrs President