Stay Alfred, a three-year old company based here that rents out downtown vacation properties in large cities, may be one of the fastest growing Spokane companies that nobody has heard of, asserts Skyler Reep, company spokesman. Headquartered in almost

Sandpoint's diverse and growing employment base is helping offset last year's loss of major employer Coldwater Creek, several business representatives and observers there say. Companies representing software, aerospace, biomedical, and manufacturing

Having emerged from receivership and paid the last of its old debts, Liberty Lake-based energy storage company Demand Energy Networks Inc. is pursuing what it says is a New York City market that has arrived finally. The company last month landed a contra

Spokane attorneys who specialize in intellectual property law say the field is expanding and changing, whether it's in copyright, trademark, and trade secrets or patent law.

FIRST Robotics Competition, a Manchester, N.H.-based youth robotics competition program, is seeking to increase its presence here by holding its regional competition at Eastern Washington University next month, says Erin McCallum, the Kent, Wash.-based pr