Bob Dore, owner of the Hillyard-area business Spokane Chimney & Fireplace Inc. and a real estate holding company called Dore Holdings LLC, has filed personal and corporate petitions for Chapter 7 liquidation in U.S. Bankruptcy Court here.Dore's

Spokanes daily parking rates are among the lowest on the continent, suggests a new survey by the Washington, D.C.-based National Parking Association that examined parking rates in 131 markets throughout the U.S. and Canada. The survey looked

The Spokane Regional Site Selector, a Web site that allows visitors to identify and research quickly available commercial properties here online, had a strong first year and is proving to be a multifaceted resource, say members of the consortium at

Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based contract manufacturer, says it expects to begin making products in December for Kaz Inc., a Southborough, Mass.-based maker of health, home, and garden products.Key Tronic declines to say what product

Spokane County is adding $812 million in newly constructed buildings and newly platted land to its tax rolls this year, which is down from more than $1 billion in each of the previous two years, but still quite healthy, says Assessor Ralph county a

Spokane County has set a tentative date of the week of Oct. 20 for naming a long-term operator for the 200-acre racing complex on the West Plains that it acquired two months ago.Earlier, the county had set a Sept. 19 deadline for receiving but

Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based contract manufacturer, says it expects 10 new customers to come on line in its 2009 fiscal year, which began at the end of June, and to contribute strongly to its revenue.Jack Oehlke, Key Tronics and

Goodrich Corp., the Charlotte, N.C.-based company that makes carbon aircraft brakes at a nine-year-old plant on the West Plains, has won a big reduction in the personal-property taxes it pays on the expensive equipment at the plant.The company