The city of Spokane has shelved plans to enlarge greatly a broadband wireless-communication network that covers a roughly 100-block area of downtown.Right now I dont see that growing a lot, says Garv Brakel, the citys director of It a

RiverBank, a boutique financial institution that opened here about 19 months ago, has applied to the Federal Reserve to form a bank holding company.The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, part of the Fed network, is accepting comment on the

Dissatisfied with proposals it received from prospective vendors interested in providing it with long-term renewable energy, Avista Corp. says it now is looking at building its own wind-power plant to meet some of those future electrical-generation

An investor group has begun work on a 350-acre equestrian estates development, called Stonebrook Ranch, thats to be located about 35 miles northwest of Spokane, near Springdale, Wash., and that the group believes is the first of its type in this

Brett and Susan Sommer had retirement in mind when they moved their family to Coeur dAlene from a New York City suburb three years ago. What they ended up with was anything but a leisurely retirement pace, after buying and restoring an old brick

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Inc., of Spokane, which touts itself as the Northwests largest independent medical lab, says it has begun marketing a turnkey package of services designed to help big hospitals do in-house specimen is

Goodrich Corp., the Charlotte, N.C.-based company that makes carbon aircraft brakes at a plant on the West Plains, has won an appeal that could keep it from being hit with a big increase in property taxes here based on the assessed value of the of

As world aluminum prices go, so go the fortunes of Wagstaff Inc., a 61-year-old Spokane Valley company that makes equipment for the aluminum-casting industry. Right now, aluminum prices are hot, and theyre expected to remain so for the were $1.10

RiverBank, which opened for business here about 16 months ago, is exceeding its business plan projections in all facets, says Duane Brandenburg, its president and CEO.The boutique financial institution currently has about $95 million in assets,

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (SEL), the Pullman-based maker of electrical-system protection, monitoring, and control equipment, says it is launching development of a production complex in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, that will cost upwards