Spokanes Alloy Trailers Inc., which says its one of the two largest remaining full-line manufacturers of over-the-road truck trailers in the Western U.S., is trying to steer back into profitability after trimming its financial load.Weighted

Dealers Auto Auction of Spokane, a 6-year-old vehicle wholesaler, has been in its new, enlarged auction facility on the West Plains for only about two yearsand its already expanding.Its adding three sales lanes to the facilitys auction a

The Washington state Department of Health has denied a joint certificate of need application by Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital for a 25-bed transitional-care unit at Holy Family.In transitional care, a short-term, is for to

Spokanes commercial TV stations expect to spend millions of dollars each over the next three years to comply with a federal mandate that they, along with all other such stations in the country, begin broadcasting digitally by May 2002. The local

Northwest Medical Services Organization, a nonprofit doctors group formed here about six years ago, is continuing to grow at a rapid pace, says Jason Sargent, its top management executive.Since last fall, the provider-sponsored entity, is

Spokanes four major entertainment and meeting facilities had their best year ever financially in 1997, bolstered by record combined revenue of more than $2.35 million, according to a year-end report released recently.The Opera House, Center, a

Ponderay Newsprint Co., which owns the big paper mill at Usk, Wash., about 60 miles north of Spokane, could have a new managing partner by this summer.Avenor Inc., the Montreal-based current managing partner and 40 percent owner of the plant, a

The Spokane-area office market is strengthening, due to continuing business expansions here and the arrival of some new companies, analysts say.Recently released results of an office market survey conducted earlier this year by Kiemle & Hagood a

Investors say a new medical complex they plan to develop at Liberty Lake will offer everything from urgent care, X-ray, and specialty services, to dentistry and physical and occupational therapy. It even will include an Ultrafit wellness center a a

The number of foreclosures in Spokane County more than doubled in 1997 for the second straight year, according to county auditors figures. However, a slower rate of increase through the first quarter of this year suggests that the recent upward a