Aslin-Finch Co., a Spokane Valley-based concern that operates seven retail feed and pet supply stores, and its AFCO Distribution & Milling wholesale division have been acquired by agricultural co-operative Skagit Farmers Supply, of Burlington, of a
Pullman, Wash.-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. is acting as its own contractor on two major construction projects under way with a combined value exceeding $19 million.One project is a $9 million, 98,000-square-foot Zocholl on in
Work on the Palouse wind farm, a two-year project to construct turbines meant to generate electricity for Spokane-based Avista Corp., is now complete, an addition that the energy company says will pad its growing renewable energy portfolio.The a
Health-plan costs for Spokane-area businesses are rising yet again this year, at rates that range from about 5 percent up to double-digit percentage increases, with variations mainly depending on employee numbers and plan design.Area employers a
Quietly operating for a year and a half as a statewide technology-related economic development agency, Innovate Washington expects to make more noise in the coming year. As it does so, Innovate Washington CEO Kim Zentz says, the organization's a
After several years of steeply rising mortgage defaults in Spokane County, foreclosures on deeds of trust plummeted to a four-year low in 2012, while foreclosure numbers in Kootenai County were tracking downward as well in the latest available the
The Downtown Spokane Partnership announced today that it has named former Spokane County Commissioner Mark Richard as its president.A lifelong Spokane-area resident, Richard didn't seek re-election to the county commissioner board after serving as
Fairchild Air Force Base is among those that have made the U.S. Air Force's short list of potential future homes for the KC-46A aerial refueling tankers, according to a Greater Spokane Incorporated press release issued this afternoon.GSI Maria the
Providence Health Care announced today it has acquired the Northeast Washington Medical Group, a multispecialty medical group that operates in Stevens, Ferry, and Pend Oreille counties.The acquisition was completed on Jan. 1.The group's 26 and to
Three design-build teams involving Spokane-area companies will compete for the contract to build a Spokane Convention Center exhibit hall expansion and to rehabilitate a portion of the Spokane River shoreline near the convention center.The teams a