Potlatch Corp., the big Spokane-based wood-products concern, says the national credit crisis has forced it to change how it will finance the planned spin-off of its pulp-based operations into a new publicly traded company called Clearwater Paper it

While the question of whether to convert Spokane Valleys busy Sprague-Appleway couplet to two-way streets has become a headline debate, a less well-known part of the citys broad rejuvenation proposal for that corridor is drawing sharp criticism

The economy might be declining, but executive pay continues to grow at a healthy paceat least at some Inland Northwest public companies.Top executives here on average received a 12.2 percent bump in total direct compensationto an average of

World Wide Packets Inc., the Spokane Valley-based company founded by computer networking guru Bernard Daines and sold recently to a Baltimore-area concern for nearly $300 million, says it expects to grow its operations here and is looking for last

Rather unceremoniously, the final chapter in the story of what once was a promising high-tech manufacturer here played out in the cold, stark entryway of the Spokane County Courthouse in late December. There, an attorney invited opening bids in the

One year after a group of civic leaders launched Greater Spokane Incorporatedamid a mix of high expectations and some skepticismorganizers now say the job of combining the regions top two business groups has been difficult and mistakes were

Jim Schoenleber, a former cop who built a security-guard business here into a 2,000-employee regional powerhouse before selling it to retire to a fishing lodge, has come out of retirement to launch a dot-com venture that helps consumers know if is

Roughly 1,800 people attended the Northwest Mining Associations annual convention here this month and there wasnt an unhappy face in the joint, says Laura Skaer, the groups executive director.It was very, very upbeat, Skaer says.