Terry Patano, who owns Coeur dAlene-based Doma Coffee Roasting Co. with his wife, Rebecca, loves coffee, but doesnt get his java fix from downing espresso shots each day. Rather, Patano derives his energy from a longtime passion for the bean am

Regal II LLC, a company headed by Spokane developer Terry Tombari, has broken ground on a $7 million office building on Regal Street, on Spokanes South Hill. The two-story, 36,000-square-foot structure, to be called Regal Place, is being on a

Now two years old, the Inland Northwest Economic Alliance is on track with its business-recruitment effort to attract its first companies to the region within the next year, veteran recruiter Bob Potter says. Potter says he has made 115 sales

Reliance Trailer Co. LLC, a Spokane manufacturer of dump-truck boxes and trailers, has more than tripled its work force since 2003, when its owners consolidated here affiliated manufacturing operations from Lynnwood, Wash., and Cotati, Reliance 230

Puget Sound business and health officials have spent considerable time and energy over the last year preparing jointly for a possible new pandemic flu, but such efforts are just now getting off the ground here, and Spokane-area businesses appear to

Close your eyes and it could be the high-tech glory days of 2000. Telect Inc. CEO Wayne Williams is talking about the challenges of getting product out the door fast enough to meet demand. Desperate customers are calling to say theyd pay two

Evergreen Fountains LLC, a company headed by brothers Greg and Prokey Arger, plans to develop a 115-unit retirement complex, to be called Evergreen Fountains Senior Living Community, along Evergreen Road, in Spokane Valley.The Argers say the of

A Spokane company led by real estate executive Bill Butler has completed its purchase of the eight-story, former Wells Fargo Bank Building downtown and has started work on a $1 million-plus renovation project there.The company, Riverside 522 up

Kootenai Medical Center, in Coeur dAlene, projects in its recently completed master campus plan that it will spend as much as $260 million over the next 20 years to expand and renovate its facilities, although that figure is on the high end of in

Some years back, Dr. Stacie Bering made a heartbreaking visit to a hospital to see a friend who was dying of cancer. It wasnt just the friends terminal condition that made Bering feel sad; it was that he was all alone, with nurses scurrying