Packet Engines Inc. founder Bernard Daines is organizing what he envisions will be a grass-roots citizens group that would call into question and perhaps push for the reversal of steps city and county government officials are taking to bring into...
Full StoryThe Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena and the public district that owns it are performing as well as the entertainers who grace the arenas stage and the champion athletes who compete on its rinks and courts.The Spokane Public Facilities District...
Full StoryRumors are swirling in downtown Spokane about a possible building projectperhaps a high-rise office tower or a parking garageon the block where the Rookery Building and several smaller structures now stand.The rumors, which are circulating a...
Full StorySpokanes four major entertainment and meeting facilities had their best year ever financially in 1997, bolstered by record combined revenue of more than $2.35 million, according to a year-end report released recently.The Opera House, Center, a...
Full StorySpokane-based WTB Financial Corp. posted record net income of $15.6 million for 1997, up 6.9 percent from 1996.The financial services holding company, the parent of Washington Trust Bank, of Spokane, also reported solid gains in assets, loans, a...
Full StoryRite Aid Corp., the Camp Hill, Pa.-based drug-store chain, is having a store constructed at the northwest corner of Sprague Avenue and Sullivan Road in the Spokane Valley and plans to open one of its drug stores there in August.The planned store...
Full StoryPonderay Newsprint Co., which owns the big paper mill at Usk, Wash., about 60 miles north of Spokane, could have a new managing partner by this summer.Avenor Inc., the Montreal-based current managing partner and 40 percent owner of the plant, a...
Full StoryA modest boost in the local sales-tax rate could raise enough money to pay the local share of a $300 million light-rail system here, but Spokane-area voters would have to approve the tax hike, an official here says.The U.S. House of included of...
Full StoryThe Spokane-area office market is strengthening, due to continuing business expansions here and the arrival of some new companies, analysts say.Recently released results of an office market survey conducted earlier this year by Kiemle & Hagood a...
Full StoryEmployment in the Spokane area rose 4 percent in 1997the biggest year-to-year gain in jobs in the 1990s, according to the latest full-year figures from the state of Washington.Last year, the number of people employed in the Spokane area rose...
Full Story
Amazon Again? Site work is underway on the West Plains
An expanded field of uses at Sandpoint’s signature park
First Shopko remodel starts on Spokane’s North Side
Making history at the Riverfalls Tower
Q&A with West Plains Chamber of Commerce’s Mark Losh
New AIA Spokane director emphasizes climate
