Two telecommunications companies will ramp up dial-tone service for Spokane commercial customers soon, joining three other providers of such service in an increasingly competitive market here.The two companies, Stamford, Conn.-based Citizens and

Power City Electric Inc., a longtime Spokane electrical contracting company, is embroiled in a court battle with a rival company formed three months ago by two former employees. It has accused the new company of using confidential information to to

J.J. Newberry Co., the retail variety-store chain that had three outlets in Spokane just two years ago, expects to close the doors on its last store here, at Shadle Center this April, says Kevin Lake, the stores manager.The 19,500-square-foot

A partnership that includes prominent Spokane real estate developer and broker Bob Tomlinson is proposing a big residential and industrial development for a 300-acre site near Liberty Lake. The development, called Liberty Lake Meadows, would 64

POST FALLSThe downtown core of this quiet community is poised for a regeneration, as development plans for the former Louisiana-Pacific Corp. lumber mill site begin to take shape and the city officials look to hinge other nearby development what

A person gets to know Spokane in an entirely different way from 2,000 feet in the air, says Ray Aguirre.He should know. Hes the newest proprietor of Libby Photographers, a nearly 100-year-old venture at 508 W. Second that has specialized in for a

Jones & Mitchell Inc., a longtime Spokane insurance brokerage, says it has sold its assets to Missoula, Mont.-based Western States Insurance Inc.The Spokane brokerage, located at 123 E. Second, now is operating as a branch office of the Montana

A group of Spokane investors plans to develop a multimillion-dollar office building in the University of Idaho Research Park, in Post Falls, next year.The envisioned structure would be built on a two-acre site just north of the University of at