Twenty-three years ago, Paul Fishs girlfriend gave him an ultimatum: Make a go of his backpack-making businessa one-person, home-based sewing shop he called Mountain Gearor get a real job. Fish didnt know what he would do for a real in

TelStar Associates Inc., a Boise-based computer-services company, says it plans this summer to open a Spokane office that could employ up to 30 people.TelStar is close to reaching an agreement with two companies here that would use its says and

Two Spokane construction companies and a Portland, Ore., company thats involved in expanding the Spokane Convention Center are the three finalists for a contract to do the first two phases of planned upgrades at Washington State Universitys in

The city of Spokane Valley has hired a consulting team to draft a plan for growth and change along the Sprague-Appleway corridor that runs through the middle of the city.Work on the $430,000 study has begun, and is expected to be completed late

Three years ago, Sturm Heating Inc. decided to take a big step in growing its longtime furnace repair and replacement business by expanding into plumbing, electrical, and new-home installations.Grow it did. The now 61-year-old Spokane company a

Intense pressure to get products to market prompted Eastern Washington businesses to rank unclogging Puget Sound highways as a close secondbehind avalanche-caused delays at Snoqualmie Passin their transportation-improvement priorities in a last

Coffee shops and drive-through espresso stands are popping up faster here than one can say grande, double-shot, nonfat mocha, and java experts say that despite heated competition, those businesses are adding an extra caffeine jolt to an already

Spokane Public Schools has decided to turn Shadle Park High School around. Literally.Northwest Architectural Co., of Spokane, has completed preliminary design work of the planned $59 million modernization of the 49-year-old high school at a

The number of home sales in the Spokane area through the first four months of this year didnt keep up with last years record pace, according to the Spokane Multiple Listing Service. Sales prices, however, continued to climb, and as a the of

Capital improvement projects worth an estimated $72 million either have gotten under way already this year at Spokane International Airport (SIA) or are planned to start between now and the end of 2008, airport officials say.SIA expects that an