Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. has begun taking water samples at a former aluminum by-product disposal site about 10 miles northeast of downtown Spokane in the Mead area that has been found to contain contaminants.The site, located near the of
Northwest Farm Credit Services has reported $41.1 million in net income in the first quarter, boosting its quarterly earnings by 140 percent from $17.1 million in the year-earlier period.Meanwhile, the Spokane-based ag-lending cooperative set in
Sterling Financial Corp., of Spokane, is proposing to merge its Golf Savings Bank mortgage subsidiary into Sterling Savings Bank, its Spokane-based banking arm, and take other steps as it works to complete its proposed $720 million company also to
After living and working for a time in northern California, Spokane Valley natives Curtiss and Laura Grenz were eager to return here, and they found a concrete way to do that, literally. They founded a business through which they used an initial of
The U.S. General Services Administration says construction will start this month on a 20,300-square-foot building on the West Plains that the agency plans to lease from private developers to house a military unit that processes recruits Spokane be
Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc., which has an office in Bellevue, Wash., is building a $56 million West Side jail, says the director of the facility, which is scheduled to open in September 2011.The jail director, Penny Bartley, says Lydig
Itron Inc., of Liberty Lake, has released what it says is North America's first gas meter with an integrated remote disconnect valve that enables a utility to shut off the flow of natural gas to a customer for safety reasons without sending out a a
Ross Stores Inc., a Pleasanton, Calif.-based company that operates the Ross Dress for Less retail chain, has agreed to lease most of the former Gottschalks Inc. space in the Manito Shopping Center, on Spokane's South Hill, and plans to open a store
Liberty Lake-based Greenstone Corp. is buying the vacant 250,000-square-foot Agilent Technologies Inc. building there, along with about 70 acres of land, and plans to develop a multibuilding campus on the site called the MeadowWood Technology is on
With federal funds committed for the final section of the North Spokane Corridor's most northern leg, the Washington state Department of Transportation now is seeking money for seven projects that would comprise the next three-mile segment of the a