Avista Corp., the longtime Spokane-based utility once known as Washington Water Power Co., announced this afternoon that Toronto-based Hydro One will acquire it in a transaction valued at $5.3 billion U.S., or $6.7 billion Canadian.
The transaction has
After two years of declining sales, activity is heating up in a big way at Hotstart Inc.
The Spokane Valley-based maker of engine heating equipment is seeing a 30 percent increase in revenue so far this year and is hiring more employees to handle the add
The U.S. Air Force gave Spokane economic development advocates reason to cheer-and alleviated some fear-when it announced earlier this week that it would be expanding the size of the Fairchild Air Force Base's air-refueling fleet.
Twelve KC-135
The city of Spokane has launched a business registration amnesty program through which unregistered businesses that are located in the city or do business here can come into compliance without any penalties for delinquencies.
Margaret Redd, taxes and li
The Spokane Gives campaign has expanded in scope during its first three years.
Entering its fourth year, its initiator, Spokane Mayor David Condon, sees potential for more growth in participation from the business sector.
'We're starting to get mo
One of my most vivid memories of junior high school involves a big kid in the cafeteria stealing the tater tots off of my lunch tray. He plucked them one by one, smiling smugly, until I stabbed him on the back of the hand with my fork. I can't remember
Spokane Club CEO Stacie Harper will leave the private social-and-athletic club at month's end to take an executive position with Stay Alfred, the quickly growing Spokane-based vacation rental company.
Harper says she's scheduled to start her new job
Melissa Murphy started her career as a Realtor at the height of the residential real estate market in Spokane in the mid-2000s, then founded her own brokerage when that market troughed out about five years later.
After five years in business, Prime Real
Washington state is considering a stronger investment in the tourism sector this year, with proposed legislation that would establish the Washington Tourism Marketing Authority.
Whether that will happen this year remains unclear-the state Legislature
Maybe you don't know Corner Booth Media by name. But chances are, if you've watched TV in the Inland Northwest, you've seen the company's work.
Corner Booth is a video production company that makes television commercials, corporate presentations