Washington State University has selected Seattle architectural firm NBBJ to design a $45 million medical-sciences building that's to be constructed at the Riverpoint Campus east of downtown. A general contractor and construction manager will be to

Avista Corp. and several partners would make a $38 million investment in technology and equipment in Pullman if a $178 million five-state demonstration project is a winner in a national competition for federal stimulus grants that would cover half

Agilent Technologies Inc., the Santa Clara, Calif.-based scientific-instrument maker, says it has decided to move its Liberty Lake operations into leased space and out of a much larger complex that it owns here after having reduced its Spokane-area

Environmentally minded, publicly traded companies have a new option for distributing their annual reports to shareholders, as required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).A new Oklahoma-based company, Green Wise Report, has a it

Engineers at Ohio State University have found a way to double the production of the biofuel butanol, which might someday replace gasoline in automobiles.The process improves on the conventional method for brewing butanol in a bacterial bacteria

Increasing demand by home owners and businesses to make their buildings more energy efficient is spawning a growing niche for what's called energy auditing. Meanwhile, programs to train individuals to perform such audits are being funded here with