Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, says it reached an important corporate threshold late last month when it listed one of its stock offerings for the first time on a prominent national exchange.A $150 million offering of Series

You might call it a marriageand a businessmade in cyberheaven.Ramona and Marcus Lawson, of Spokane, met on the Internet, through a match-making service called love@aol, and enjoy cuddling up at home to watch TechTV, a 24-hour cable and to be

While many of Spokanes largest employers have been slashing jobs over the last year, the Liberty Lake operation of Software Spectrum Inc. has been expanding its work force.The Garland, Texas-based software seller and technical-service provider

Those involved in creating the states first tax-increment financing districton West Plains land that will be home to a new technology parksay theres quite a learning curve to interpreting and using the new law, which made a long-sought tool

Dr. Christopher T. Bajzer, schooled in avant-garde interventional cardiology, arrived in Spokane from Ohio in the summer of 1999. Practicing at Spokane Cardiology PSC, he made an immediate impact, helping the practice land two clinical-research a a

After years of battling dwindling precious-metals prices, dimming U.S. exploration prospects, and a decline in its own share price, Coeur dAlene Mines Corp. might have unearthed richer diggings.The company says that two mineral deposits in the

Coldwater Creek Inc., the big Sandpoint-based retailer, has adopted two new merchandising strategies designed to blunt the impact that the weather can have on its sales.Under one strategy, called buy now, wear now, Coldwater Creek is of and

Lifestream Technologies Inc. says its second-quarter sales were dramatically higher than theyve been during any other quarter in its history, and the Post Falls-based maker of cholesterol-testing devices says it expects double-digit sales growth

Two longtime restaurateurs from Northern California have bought a building in downtown Coeur dAlene and are spending $1 million to convert it into a 200-seat restaurant and nightclub to be called Brix.The restaurateurs, Bill and Janet Scott, a

AmericanWest Bank, of Spokane, plans within the next three months to close two bank branches located inside Rosauers Supermarkets Inc. stores here in a shift away from such in-store branches.AmericanWest, formerly known as United Security Bank,