D Square Energy LLC, a North Bend Wash.-based company that sells, services, and maintains electrical generators that provide backup power for the commercial and industrial markets, has opened an outlet in Spokane Valley.The new shop occupies of
Spokane-based building-supply chain Ziegler Lumber Co. says it will close its 45-year-old, original retail store on North Market Street this month to make room for the North Spokane Corridor project. Company founder Vern Ziegler says he decided
With Congress in recess until after the November elections, tax planners here say they're facing more uncertainty than usual before tax season, although the recently enacted Small Business Jobs Act contains some tax incentives that business owners
Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS), a medical- and dental-care provider that operates seven clinics, says it will move two of its Spokane-area clinics before year-end. Also, it says it plans to open an urgent-care center in Spokane next
The Spokane Regional Health District is asking Spokane County and the cities within it to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes and nicotine to minors. The district claims that its call to outlaw electronic-cigarette sales to minors is the first of
The Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center says it expects to start construction this month on a $6.5 million outpatient mental-health building that will provide space for its behavioral health services to meet the growing psychological needs of a
Boise-based Green Home LLC, a home energy-efficiency improvement contractor, has leased 4,200 square feet of space in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, at 3808 N. Sullivan, and has opened a branch office there. Chase Breckner, of Crown West a
Coeur d'Alene businessman Tom Power and his wife, Patricia, have bought the Wine Cellar, a longtime downtown Coeur d'Alene bistro and jazz venue, and the 9,100-square-foot building it occupies, says Naomi Julian, general manager of the Wine Cellar
The city of Sandpoint, Idaho, is seeking bids for a planned expansion of one of its drinking water treatment plants that would about double the city's capacity to supply potable water, says a project manager for the Spokane office of Denver-based 5
Steve McGrew, an inventor and entrepreneur known here for his involvement in companies pursuing new technologies, also is grounded firmly in the ancient art of metal working.McGrew is just as likely to be found using a forge in his blacksmith a