Mario & Son Inc., a Spokane Valley stone fabricator, plans to move to a new, larger plant that its owners will develop for it in Liberty Lake along the south side of Interstate 90, says Joey Marcella, the companys president.Tentatively, the a

Puget Sound business and health officials have spent considerable time and energy over the last year preparing jointly for a possible new pandemic flu, but such efforts are just now getting off the ground here, and Spokane-area businesses appear to

Holy Family Hospital says its set to begin work on a big expansion and renovation project that will include construction of a centralized ambulatory-services area and a four-story medical-office building, part of which will be developed hospital

Acordia Inc., a Chicago-based Wells Fargo subsidiary, has bought the Spokane branch assets of global insurance giant Marsh, says Mark Neupert, who had been an executive with Marsh here and now is senior vice president and branch manager for of last

Spokane-based OneEighty Networks Inc. is creating a new subsidiary through which it plans to begin offering converged voice and data communications direct to business customers desktops in the Inland Northwest, says Greg Green, its chairman a

Visit a more established mobile-electronics shop here on a weekend and its likely to have the feel of a car rally, with young people coming and going in often tricked-out machines and all atwitter about the latest 12-volt gear they plan to add to

Big California-based real estate investor Warner Lusardi, who last year abruptly scrapped plans to buy 160 acres of undeveloped land on the West Plains, has bought several other parcels there on the opposite side of Interstate 90.The six that a

Delta Angel Group, a nonprofit alliance formed here three years ago to bring together early-stage, mostly technology-oriented companies with private investors, is making gains in its efforts to stimulate business growth here, says Norm Leatha, its

POST FALLSLightning might not strike in the same place twice, as the saying goes, but AC Data Systems Inc. has developed a way to summon its sheer energyover and over againin a laboratory setting. It now is using that capability to improve to

Avista Corp. says it is evaluating proposals from vendors interested in providing it about 35 average megawatts of long-term renewable energy, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2007, and hopes to decide on a supplier by early next month. the a