Love, or the prospect thereof, can make a man do crazy things.In Dennis Wendlandts case, it made him learn to square danceand eventually to become a Spokane shopkeeper.When Wendlandt and his wife, Shirley, first started dating in 1983, 80

The stakes are rising for Biomedex Inc. and its plans to have a state-of-the-art biotech manufacturing facility built for it near Spokane International Airport.Company President George Coleman says the young Spokane venture is tightening its a a

The Coeur dAlene Tribe, which just completed a $12 million resort hotel and conference-center addition at its bingo-casino complex near Worley, Idaho, now is looking to invest another about $20 million on several other large projects Matheson, to

World Wide Packets, the Spokane developer of fiber-optic networking equipment targeted at bringing gigabit data transmission speeds to residential and business customers, is moving forward at lightning speed.The latest venture of Ethernet guru a

First and foremost, Royce Drye will tell you, hes a professional fisherman who spends a few weeks each year trying to hook trophy walleye for big money prizes. It might not be surprising that the Spokane company he co-founded, The Tech Group a

A Canadian manufacturer of energy-saving lighting-system regulators and its Spokane-based distributor plan in August to open a joint office in the University of Idaho Research Park, in Post Falls.The Canadian company, Questal Technologies Inc.,

Work at the proposed Mount Spokane Plaza in the Mead area could start up again soon.Lincoln Partners LLC, a Spokane company formed by Spokane developer Joe Stanek and his family, has received building permits to construct two retail buildings a

LineSoft Corp., a Spokane-based maker of software for power-line planning and design, has inked a multimillion-dollar contract to provide software to WPS Resources Corp., of Green Bay, Wis.Tom Smith, a LineSoft spokesman, estimates the value of

Argus Services Inc., a Spokane Valley-based security company, says it has landed an annual contract worth $4.7 million to provide armed security personnel for about two dozen federal facilities along the Interstate 5 corridor in Oregon and new to a

Coeur dAlene School District No. 271 is planning an $11 million remodel and expansion of Coeur dAlene High School.Construction bids for the project are scheduled to be opened today, Feb. 8.If the bids are acceptable and a contract is to 1