To no ones surprise, Taylor Engineering Inc. President Mike Taylor wanted to be an engineer early in life.Then, however, the son of a career military man headed toward a military career himself. That was followed by a brief stint as a farmer

Big California-based real estate investor Warner Lusardi, who last year abruptly scrapped plans to buy 160 acres of undeveloped land on the West Plains, has bought several other parcels there on the opposite side of Interstate 90.The six that a

Coeur dAlene real estate broker John Beutler, who owns Century 21 Beutler & Associates, says that he and his wife, Ann, along with developer Marshall Chesrown, plan to construct a 59,000-square-foot office and retail complex along Northwest in a

Faced with the prospect that spending hundreds of millions of dollars to meet expected new environmental regulations still wont be enough, the city of Spokane is again studying the option of piping some of its treated waste water elsewhere, than

Next IT Corp., the young Spokane company that develops artificial intelligence technologies for government, commercial, and educational uses, has nearly doubled its work force in the past year, to 50, and has tripled its revenues, says CEO Fred 70

Spokane Valley-based fuel-cell maker ReliOn Inc. quadrupled its sales volume in 2005 and is on track to grow at that same aggressive rate this year. In the not-too-distant future, the company, which uses its fuel-cell technology to make backup

Spokane-based Sterling Savings Bank is expanding its correspondent banking department, which lends money to other banks and provides services to them.Sterling recently opened the departments third office, in Portland, says Sid Bennett, a vice

Soon, more Spokane-area businesses will be able to deposit checks into their bank accounts without making a visit to a bank branch. Some Spokane-based banks are ramping up a service the banking industry generally refers to as remote deposit can

Delta Angel Group, a nonprofit alliance formed here three years ago to bring together early-stage, mostly technology-oriented companies with private investors, is making gains in its efforts to stimulate business growth here, says Norm Leatha, its

Women with waistlines of 35 inches or more are at greater risk of heart disease than thinner women, according to a new study by researchers at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and Sister to Sister: Everyone Has a Heart Foundation. The study a