Think of food banks and you think of canned-food drives and small charitable outlets where shelves of donated items await the needy. Look behind the curtain, however, and youll find a distribution operation that rivals grocery warehouses in and a

Using radio waves, rather than chemicals, may be the best, post-harvest process for debugging dried fruits and nuts, according to a team of researchers led by a Washington State University professor.Radio waves that generate heat to kill the in

As fall harvest approaches, Inland Northwest farmers are hoping to realize prices for soft white wheat that are nearly double what they received last year.The price of wheat, posted prominently in big letters on a readerboard in downtown Colfax

Heidi Stanley likes change. More specifically, she likes instigating it.Thats not surprising, since Stanley had a hand in the evolution of a Spokane savings and loan association into an $11.4 billion financial institution, and has helped the

The presence here of two companies that finish and heat-treat metal was instrumental in the recently announced recruitment to Hayden, Idaho, of Titan Spring Co., a North Hollywood, Calif., manufacturer that makes many of its products for the Titan

Maxwell Group LLC, owned by Spokane real estate investor Bob Maxwell, has bought the 24-unit West Ridge Apartments, at 2820 W. Seventh, and is converting the apartments to condominiums, says real estate agent Tim Penna.Penna, of Century 21 & a

Vandervert Construction Inc. has started building a Lowes Cos. home-improvement store in Spokane Valley and a Numerica Credit Union branch in Airway Heights in contracts worth a combined total of about $12.4 million.Meanwhile, the contractor

Phase 1 Physical Therapy LLC, of Suncrest, has begun site work for a planned $1 million building that will house its offices and Suncrest Fitness Inc., a new membership-based fitness center, says owner Joel San Nicolas. San Nicolas says he to 1

Engineering work has begun for a planned new freeway interchange that would serve the big Cabelas Inc. sporting goods store thats under construction on the west edge of Post Falls.Dave Larsen, who heads up Idaho projects for Spokane-based a

Former rental homes on a block just east of the Fred Meyer Stores outlet at Fourth Avenue and Thor Street have been vacated recently, and the landowner says shes planning to clear the property to make room for a possible commercial project is by