A $2.7 million upgrade at Potlatch Corp.s St. Maries, Idaho, lumber and plywood mill is expected to boost productivity and enable the company to make a new product there.Potlatch spokesman Mike Sullivan says the Spokane company expects that a

Having cut its own path into the international marketplace during the past 12 years, Itron Inc. now plans to take its recent acquisitions along that route.The Spokane Valley-based maker of utility-data equipment and software expects that the to

Farmers & Merchants Bank, of Spokane, plans to build a bank branch, its 15th overall, in the Wandermere area north of Spokane. The bank has bought a retail pad at 516 E. Hastings, in the parking lot of Fred Meyers Wandermere store, and plans

The Spokane campus of Apollo College, having enjoyed enrollment surges in its medical-training programs during its first few years here, is moving to larger quarters.The Phoenix-based college has leased about 15,000 square feet of floor space a

YMCA of the Inland Northwest is exploring the possibility of building a new facility on Spokanes North Side that could be similar in size and scope to the $6 million Spokane Valley YMCA that opened in late 1999.Rig Riggins, president and CEO

Convention bookings are down this year from those for 2002, but the Spokane Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau is plotting to narrow the gap before year-end.Still, before the U.S. invaded Iraq last week, visitor activity in the Spokane to

Energized by the addition of ESPN founder Stu Evey as its top executive, a young Spokane company is preparing to launch its digital jukebox as an alternative to the conventional music machines. The company, Songbird Digital Jukebox Inc., so

In established parts of the MeadowWood at Liberty Lake subdivision, homes with three-car garages spread out over wide lots.In newer parts of the same neighborhood, however, homes with living space stacked upon tandem garages, in which cars are

A $1 million renovation project is expected to get under way later this month in the western portion of the 40-year-old Heritage Village Shopping Center, just north of the Division Street Y on Spokanes North Side.Dave Black, CEO of Black

A yellowed Sears, Roebuck & Co. sticker on the screen door of Mark Strains Spokane Valley home says the premises are monitored by electronic devices.Upon entering the basement where Strain operates his business, Strain Security & Night Vision