Though there are a handful of tax-law changes to smile about as you begin to contemplate the upcoming tax season, overall this years changes likely will give you little to cheer, tax advisers here say.Most of this years tax-law changes were

A former union iron worker from Los Angeles who launched Tri States Rebar Inc., of Spokane Valley, in 1983, and his son have built up a company that now employs 35 people and pulled in revenue of $7 million last year.The business fabricates for

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, has bought 17 acres of land on the West Plains adjoining the 5 1/2-acre site where its main warehouse and maintenance facility is located.CEO Kris Mikkelsen says the cooperative

Payne Properties & Development, of Spokane, says it plans to build a roughly $2.3 million retail center at a former Wheel Sport Inc. location on Grand Boulevard on Spokanes South Hill.The project, to be called Grand Corner, is expected to two

Ascension Snowboards Inc., a new snowboard manufacturer in Post Falls, hopes its products will do more than shred the slopes. It hopes they also will help it carve out a niche in the highly-competitive snowboard industry by meeting demand for that

Eleven loan officers have left Washington Mutual Bank here to help open a new loan office in downtown Spokane for Melville, N.Y.-based American Home Mortgage Corp., and the company is looking to open an office in the Coeur dAlene area American is

Walla Walla-based Banner Bank, which operates three branches here, says its eyeing several locations for additional branches here as part of an aggressive regional expansion plan.Banner plans to open four new branches here in the next two and

T.W. Clark Construction LLC, of Spokane Valley, has won a contract to build a roughly $30 million condominium tower that Tacoma-based Prium Companies LLC plans to develop in downtown Spokane.The 15-story, 345,000-square-foot tower will include

Six state and local government agencies plan transportation projects in Spokane County over the next four years that could amount to as much as $457 million worth of work.The 75 projects, ranging from a $34,000 concrete-barrier installation to

Spokane International Airport is using only about a third of its passenger capacity and just 1 percent of its cargo capacity, says a draft technical report by the Washington state Department of Transportation.The report also says that Spokane a