Ascension Snowboards Inc., a new snowboard manufacturer in Post Falls, hopes its products will do more than shred the slopes. It hopes they also will help it carve out a niche in the highly-competitive snowboard industry by meeting demand for that

Eleven loan officers have left Washington Mutual Bank here to help open a new loan office in downtown Spokane for Melville, N.Y.-based American Home Mortgage Corp., and the company is looking to open an office in the Coeur dAlene area American is

Walla Walla-based Banner Bank, which operates three branches here, says its eyeing several locations for additional branches here as part of an aggressive regional expansion plan.Banner plans to open four new branches here in the next two and

T.W. Clark Construction LLC, of Spokane Valley, has won a contract to build a roughly $30 million condominium tower that Tacoma-based Prium Companies LLC plans to develop in downtown Spokane.The 15-story, 345,000-square-foot tower will include

Six state and local government agencies plan transportation projects in Spokane County over the next four years that could amount to as much as $457 million worth of work.The 75 projects, ranging from a $34,000 concrete-barrier installation to

Spokane International Airport is using only about a third of its passenger capacity and just 1 percent of its cargo capacity, says a draft technical report by the Washington state Department of Transportation.The report also says that Spokane a

Four years ago, two men stepped into a Coeur dAlene basement, began making phone calls, and launched what has quickly become a sizable digital-printing enterprise in Hayden, Idaho, now with 65 employees and anticipated revenue this year of $10.3

A planned $7 million expansion of Moran Vista Living & Retirement Community that originally was expected to begin in August or September now is expected to start Nov. 1, says Kevin Cox, president and CEO of Bend, Ore.-based Ageia Health Services be

Living trusts can be a useful estate planning tool, but are being used here as a ruse by unscrupulous salespeople to persuade seniors to buy bogus trusts and investment products, government and private attorneys say.Living-trust scams, which on

Sellers of home-health medical supplies and equipment here say a growing population of senior citizens and a trend of seniors living longer in their own homes is spurring growth in all areas of their business.They dont expect that growth to a