The owners of Empire Dance Shop, who write out their monthly balance sheets by hand on pieces of ledger paper, maintain a computer database that tracks which pointe shoes each of the shops customer has tried over the years and what they thought a

Of the Journal of BusinessAvista Corp. had been working to open a back-office operation in a Spokane Valley office park planned here by technology guru Bernard Daines when the project was affected adversely by growth-management issues, Avista to

Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC, which completed its spinoff last month from Bayer Corp., will be much more aggressive than Bayer was here in both introducing new allergy and asthma-related products and in seeking contract-manufacturing roles for

Storm-water management, once given little local-government attention compared with sanitary-sewer and drinking-water issues, has turned into a $120 million-plus concern in Spokane County, and officials soon may be looking to businesses here to a of

Spokane developer and general contractor Mick McDowell has firmed up plans for a 10-story, roughly $8 million high-end condominium project on Riverside Avenue, just west of downtown Spokane, that would overlook Peaceful Valley and the Spokane He to

Avista Corp., of Spokane, is considering moving its non-regulated businesses out of Spokane and expects to decide whether it will do so within the next six to 12 months.Tom Matthews, Avistas chairman, president, and CEO, declines to disclose a

Steve Livingstone, one of the founders of Bayou Brewing Co., says he now hopes to try an unusual restaurant idea in the ballroom of the restored Odd Fellows Lodge, at 1017 W. First.Livingstone currently is working on recruiting a small group of

The proposed reopening of the Pend Oreille zinc and lead mine located about two miles north of Metaline Falls would generate the equivalent of nearly 240 full-time jobs in Pend Oreille County, according to a report prepared for Cominco American the

The Spokane V.A. Medical Center is in the midst of a series of upgrades that will cost nearly $8 million.The 36-bed hospital, at 4815 N. Assembly, expects to complete next month a $3.9 million project that includes the remodeling of 8,000 square