Sterling Financial Corp., the Spokane-based parent of Sterling Savings Bank, ended a brief involvement in the property-and-casualty insurance business by selling a small Billings, Mont., agency to an affiliate of a large Utah insurance buyer, LLC,

Jones & Mitchell Insurance & Risk Management Inc., a 94-year-old Spokane insurance brokerage, says it has built its business by making steady progress each year and diversifying to protect itself during tough times. Jones & Mitchell has about a

Health savings accounts, made available just late last year, already are growing in popularity as an alternative to conventional health-insurance plans.With health-care insurance premiums continuing to climb and more information about health or

C.W. Products Inc. has been around for 57 years, but the small, Spokane Valley maker of pallets, custom crates, and other wood products has undergone a lot of change in the last 14 months.Since June 2003, the company has changed hands and has a

Washington Technology Center, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization, is helping many Spokane businesses develop their big ideas.The economic-development agency, which is funded mostly through the state, provides financial and technical to that

DigiDeal Corp., the Spokane Valley maker of electronic gaming tables, has won approval from the Washington state Gambling Commission to sell its newest table for use in Washington casinos.The gaming table, upon which DigiDeals five-card stud

AmericanWest Bancorp., the Spokane-based parent of AmericanWest Bank, says it has accepted an offer to sell the former Ice World USA skating rink in Liberty Lake that it acquired through foreclosure three years ago.The skating rink, which in at

Avista Utilities will begin work shortly on a $4 million project that will replace the spill gates in its diversion dam on the main channel of the Spokane River directly west of the Division Street bridge.The dam, which is in Riverfront Park, a

A Spokane development company is moving forward with the first phase of its planned 170-lot River Run subdivision along the Spokane River in northwest Spokane.The company, Fort Wright LLC, has received approval from the city of Spokane to the a

A young Seattle-based furniture retailer has agreed to buy a former Heilig-Meyers Co. building in Spokane Valley and plans to open its first Spokane-area store there later this month.The company, which does business as Furniture Supercenter and