While Spokane-area home builders have been scurrying to keep up with rising market demand spurred by low interest rates, many of the general contractors here that vie for commercial building projects have been laying off employees and trimming due

Purcell Systems Inc. is bullish on the telecommunications industry. That might sound like sarcasm or a sick joke to those who serve the telecom industry and have watched that sectors sales and staffing levels collapse. Yet, the 3-year-old

Premera Blue Cross contends its racking up unnecessarily high expenses to pay consultants hired by the states Office of the Insurance Commissioner as it seeks to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, which it hopes to do by early next to

Spokane family-practice physician Dr. Bradley F. Bale, who has been an outspoken advocate of attacking heart disease preemptively, has started a heart-attack prevention clinic at his office here.Bale began seeing patients earlier this month

Creeeeeeeeeak!My husband and I moved into an old Corbin Park house last month, and the sounds that surround me at night now are hard to get used to. While theyre new to me, those creaks, pings, and squeaks are part of the natural aging of a a

Spokane-area homes arent the only residential properties here that are selling like hotcakes these days. Commercial real estate agents who specialize in multifamily properties say apartment complexes are selling more briskly than they have in

After almost five years of planning, a $2.8 million indoor basketball complex in the Spokane Valley is moving forward. Kert Carlson, the projects originator and managing partner of the Carlson & Associates LLC investment group, says that site

Wells Fargo Banks new top executive here says hes working to expand the San Francisco-based banks Spokane-area branch system and has been adding personnel here.Don Young, Wells Fargos new Spokane-based community bank president, says he

The general manager of Northwest Seed & Pet has bought the assets of that 59-year-old Spokane pet and garden-supply business.Bob Mauk, who has been with the company for 25 years and worked his way up from clerk to general manager, bought Seed a

Lithia Motors Inc., of Medford, Ore., plans to buy Spokane-based Sutherland Motors Ltd., a Mercedes-Benz dealer located downtown, says Sutherlands Operations Manager Tom Grainger.Its a certainty that its happening, as told to us by our