Serving in a ministerial position with the Catholic Church during his 20s, Michael Carmody didnt have much discretionary income. What he did have, though, was a high number of bird sightings under his belt and a good reputation in circles. I

Coldwater Creek Inc., the Sandpoint-based national retailer thats opening new stores at a blistering pace, will add 60 employees at its headquarters campus in the coming year and also will launch a major renovation there that will boost its space

Washington State University has begun raising money for a $55 million facelift and expansion at Martin Stadium, the Pullman, Wash., home of the WSU Cougars football team.WSUs athletic department is spearheading fund raising for the proposed a

Crown West Realty LLC, the Spokane-based owner of the big Spokane Business & Industrial Park, is on an aggressive building-acquisition spree in Phoenix, having been involved with two recent purchases there worth more than $80 million, including one

With the upcoming winter-sports season about ready to get under way, Inland Northwest ski areas are making or planning sizable capital improvements, buoyed partly by rising numbers of young snowboarders andin a couple of casesby visions of from

Dix Corp., the longtime Spokane specialty construction company, is working on $21.5 million in improvement projects on two dams on the Snake River in southeastern Washington.Two of the projects involve upgrades to Ice Harbor Dam, which is on 10

Leone & Keeble Inc., of Spokane, has negotiated or begun work on projects worth about $38 million that are scattered across the Northwest, says Paul Keeble, company president. Additionally, its wrapping up construction on two other big that a

Checking accounts with no monthly service fees have replaced free toasters and other promotional gifts that Spokane-area financial institutions used in marketing campaigns to attract customers years ago. Today, free checking accounts are so to

So much for simplifying the tax code. Tax laws passed this year add even more complexity to the code than taxpayers had to deal with previously. Theres another 600 pages added to the tax code, but there are some very good provisions, on

A parents group has formed a nonprofit entity called the Mead Education Foundation to help the Mead School District pay for things that arent covered by the districts budget.The foundation claims to be one of the first organizations of its