The construction of a planned $50 million, 19-story office tower in downtown Spokane has been delayed due to a lack of tenants and now probably wont start until at least next year, a project spokesman says.The spokesman, Larry Soehren, vice of

Many Spokane-area employers who had hoped for some respite this year from double-digit percentage increases in their health-care plan premiums likely are finding themselves mightily disappointed.Representatives for several of the Inland larger 7

A Kmart store in the Spokane Valley is one of two in Washington state that are on a leaked list of more than 200 Kmart stores reportedly slated for closure, the Puget Sound Business Journal, of Seattle, says.Kmart Corp., the struggling Troy, for

The last investors in a partnership that bought the six-story former McGinnis Independent Paper Co. building in downtown Spokane in the mid-1990s, then later dissolved, are seeking to fend off a foreclosure action brought by Washington Trust bank a

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, says it reached an important corporate threshold late last month when it listed one of its stock offerings for the first time on a prominent national exchange.A $150 million offering of Series

You might call it a marriageand a businessmade in cyberheaven.Ramona and Marcus Lawson, of Spokane, met on the Internet, through a match-making service called love@aol, and enjoy cuddling up at home to watch TechTV, a 24-hour cable and to be

While many of Spokanes largest employers have been slashing jobs over the last year, the Liberty Lake operation of Software Spectrum Inc. has been expanding its work force.The Garland, Texas-based software seller and technical-service provider

James T. Tim Welsh, president of Spokane-based Garco Construction Inc., has bought the concrete-paving assets of the former Acme Materials & Construction Co., of Spokane, from CPM Development Corp. and has formed a new company here called Acme

Calvert Technologies Inc., the 28-year-old West Plains automated-systems integrator and manufacturer, has closed its doors, and its owners, George and Judy Calvert, have filed under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to liquidate their couple in

In a ruling with potentially broad implications for employers, the Washington state Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a civil lawsuit brought by a Spokane worker who claimed she developed a stress disorder and quit her job because of an and