Energy Flow Management Inc., a young Spokane-based company that greatly increased its presence here in January when it acquired longtime electrical contractor Colvico Inc., plans this spring to begin using farm manure to generate Energy Flow is to

Peter and Candy LaPlante, of Spokane, have bought the building that had housed the now-defunct Bethany Home elder-care facility in the Spokane Valley, and plan to reopen a new elder-care operation there called Bethany Place.The buildings the a

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, posted a decline in net margins in 2001 compared with the year earlier, but the number of customers it serves and the amount of electricity it sold both grew.Inland Power also to

Empire Ford Inc., of Spokane, has begun a $1.1 million remodeling project at its dealership building in downtown Spokane, and says it will stay downtown rather than move to the West Plains as it once considered doing.John Robideaux, a marketing

At childrens birthday parties, Rick Turner sometimes asks an unsuspecting dad or grandfather for a $20 bill.He then dips the currency in rubbing alcohol and puts a match to it. As flames engulf the bill, kids laugh and grown-ups gasp. After

A Spokane events business has leased part of the shuttered Bayou Brewing Co. premises, and two other businesses, an Airway Heights microbrewery and a Spokane Thai restaurant, expect to sign leases there soon and move their respective operations the

Iron Bridge LLC, the Spokane company that plans to develop an office complex, valued at as much as $60 million, along the Spokane River east of Hamilton Street, expects to ask the city of Spokane to form a tax-increment financing district there to

Futures Unlimited Inc., of Columbus, Miss., plans to open Feb. 11 an outpatient rehabilitation clinic in Spokane that will specialize in providing therapy for patients with nervous-system dysfunctions. Ed Snapp, president and founder of the says

Whitworth College says it hopes to start work this fall on a $6.5 million academic building on its North Spokane campus, its first new academic building since 1956.Whitworth has raised $3.2 million in donations so far for the new building, which

Dr. Christopher T. Bajzer, schooled in avant-garde interventional cardiology, arrived in Spokane from Ohio in the summer of 1999. Practicing at Spokane Cardiology PSC, he made an immediate impact, helping the practice land two clinical-research a a