Spokane couple Scot and Treasure Auble have bought the assets of The Quilting Bee Inc., a longtime Spokane Valley quilting store.Treasure Auble is overseeing the daily operations at the store, which is located in a 7,500-square-foot retail space

The Toronto Stock Exchange is considering suspending trading of Gold Reserve Inc. stock.Gold Reserve, a publicly traded Spokane-based mining company, received notification on Nov. 11 that the Toronto exchange would move forward with a delisting

New-account openings have increased noticeably—and in some cases, dramatically—for some smaller, Inland Northwest-based financial institutions in recent weeks.That quickly developing trend, some say, is tied directly to Bank of in late

Fourteen years after it was first approved, the Spokane-area foreign trade zone has its first customer. Inland Empire Distribution Systems Inc., a Spokane Valley-based warehousing company whose facility is considered part of the trade zone, this

WTB Financial Corp., the Spokane parent of Washington Trust Bank, has received an $89.1 million infusion from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Small Business Lending Fund. Washington Trust is one of five community banks based in Washington

A group of local investors has started Spokane-based Inland Techstart Fund LLC, a new venture-capital fund that's expected to invest $600,000 in young companies during the next two to three years. Scott Broder, Inland Techstart's chairman, says

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Inland Northwest is well under way on a $1.9 million renovation of its main warehouse facility east of downtown Spokane.Jason Luke Clark, Second Harvest's president and CEO, says the organization is making there &