Thu., June 10, 2010
Miller Paint Company of Portland, Ore., will open a store in Spokane June 28.It will be the employee-owned company’s 36th retail store and the first company-owned store east of the Cascades, President and CEO Steve Dearborn said today.The Spokane store will open in a building…
Thu., June 10, 2010
Spokane's Dry Fly Distilling, a boutique distillery with a growing reputation for quality spirits, is set to release its next 300 bottles of wheat whiskey on Saturday.The company will start selling off 300 bottles of the whiskey starting at 8 a.m. In previous releases customers…
Thu., June 10, 2010
Clearwater Paper Corp. will build a new tissue paper plant in Shelby, N.C., Gov. Bev Perdue announced today.Spokane-based Clearwater will invest at least $260 million in the plant and equipment, which will produce 10 million cases of tissue. Company facilities now produce 30 million cases,…
Thu., June 10, 2010
Fewer Spokane and Kootenai county homeowners received foreclosure notices last month compared with April, but the numbers remained double those of a year ago.RealtyTrac today reported 136 Spokane and 216 Kootenai county homeowners were in foreclosure in May. In Kootenai County, one in every 279…
Wed., June 9, 2010
We'd guess the total number of active, managed websites for Inland Northwest businesses must be climbing somewhere in the several thousand range.Today the SR Office Hours blog will begin featuring business sites worth discovering or revisiting. Our criteria will include novelty, design, news value or…
Tue., June 8, 2010
British Columbia visitors will become eligible July 1 for a non-resident sales tax exemption on goods purchased in Washington but intended for use outside the state.The province recently changed its tax structure in a way that allows residents to claim the exemption. Ontario also made…
Tue., June 8, 2010
Home sales in Spokane County rose for the eighth consecutive month compared with 2009 levels, according to May statistics from the Spokane Association of Realtors.The May total of 519 was up almost 33 percent compared with May 2009. Sales were also marginally ahead of the…
Tue., June 8, 2010
Washington state pipeline safety regulators recommend penalties against Avista Corp. that could exceed $1.1 million. The proposed penalties are for actions that resulted in a natural gas explosion and fire in December 2008 that destroyed part of an Odessa home and injured two people. Investigators…
Tue., June 8, 2010
One World Spokane, the innovative non-profit restaurant at 1804 E. Sprague Ave., picked up a little attention in a recent story in the New York Times. The Times story was headlined "Pay-What-You-Want Has Patrons Perplexed," and examined what happens when restaurants offer meals at whatever…
Tue., June 8, 2010
Job openings jumped in April to the highest level in 16 months, a sign that private employers may boost hiring in coming months, according to the Associated Press.The number of jobs advertised at the end of April rose to 3.1 million from 2.8 million in…
Mon., June 7, 2010
Shares of Spokane-based Gold Reserve Inc. soared Monday on news of a partnership between another mining company with claims in Venezuela and China Railway Resources Co. Ltd.The stock price jumped almost 18 cents to 90 cents, a 24 percent gain for the day. Volume, at…
Mon., June 7, 2010
Are you ready for the gamepocalypse? Or is this much ado about nothing?A number of lifestyle experts say we're moving in the direction of the transformation of much of our everyday activity into some form of online game environment. Some don't like it, and call…
Fri., June 4, 2010
View Larger MapSpokane Triumph Composite Systems Machinists have approved a new three-year contract that gives them job security in exchange for accepting no pay hikes. Of 335 machinists at the West Plains manufacturing site, 81 percent of those voting approved the contract this week, union…
Thu., June 3, 2010
Insurance provider Aetna is using online virtual-assistant technology developed in Spokane on its secure member website. Developed by Spokane tech firm Next IT, the virtual assistant “Ann” replies to questions with on-screen text answers and with audio responses in a perky female voice.It’s been in…
Thu., June 3, 2010
Digilent Inc., a Pullman company started by Washington State University faculty member an an alumnus was named manufacturer of the year by Seattle Business magazine.Digilent was the winner in the small company category of the magazine's top manufacturers.Clint Cole, a lecturer at WSU's School of…
Thu., June 3, 2010
The Bonneville Power Administration’s top official will retain his politically appointed job U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Thursday. Steve Wright is BPA’s second-longest tenured CEO and administrator, taking office on the eve of the 2000-2001 West Coast energy crisis. He was named…
Thu., June 3, 2010
Digilent Inc., a Pullman company started by a Washington State University faculty member, was named small manufacturer of the year by Seattle Business magazine.Clint Cole, a lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, founded Digilent in 2000 to manufacture and market circuit…
Thu., June 3, 2010
Spokane-based Potlatch Corp. has named Lorrie D. Scott vice president and general counsel for the company. Scott, notably, holds a doctor of law degree from Harvard and a master's degree in Old World Archaeology from the University of Chicago, plus a B.A. in anthropology from…
Wed., June 2, 2010
View Larger MapIf you have a passion for Spokane railroad history, you'll celebrate recent plans by a Seattle firm to restore one of the area's historic train sites.Seattle energy-efficiency building company, McKinstry, has bought the early 1900s-era electric train shop and yards once used by…
Wed., June 2, 2010
Seven area organizations on Wednesday were given Agora Awards during an annual ceremony hosted by Greater Spokane Incorporated. Winners were:Small Nonprofit: Spokane Humane SocietyLarge Nonprofit: YMCA of the Inland NorthwestLarge Business: Advantage IQSmall Business: Catered for YouMedium Business: Nystrom Olson Collins, Inc. Entrepreneurial Spirit Award:…
Wed., June 2, 2010
Seattle blogger, author and social media maven Chris Pirillo will hold forth during a June 15 visit and session in Spokane.Sponsored by LaunchPad Inland Northwest, the event runs from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Red Lion Skyline Ballroom in downtown Spokane. The topic is…
Tue., June 1, 2010
A UBS Financial Services manager, Mike Ryan, will be guest speaker for tomorrow's (June 3) Gonzaga University Business Dean's Breakfast Forum.Ryan (shown in photo) will cover the impact of two major market collapses over the last decade on the investment environment. Breakfast starts at 7…
Thu., May 27, 2010
We'd known for awhile that contractors were filing and obtaining permits needed before Apple Inc. moves into a new Apple Store in downtown Spokane. We found the permits online and ran a story this afternoon. It's here.The managing architect for the $400,000 remodel is listed…
Thu., May 27, 2010
Mortgage rates have fallen to the lowest level of the year as European turmoil caused investors to pour money into the safe haven of U.S. government securities. The average rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage dipped to 4.78 percent this week from 4.84 percent…
Wed., May 26, 2010
The U.S. Treasury has approved agreements that will inject almost $280 million in private equity investment into Sterling Financial Corp.Warburg Pincus Private Equity X, L.P. and Thomas H. Lee Partners L.P. will each invest $139 million in Sterling, which has undertaken a $720 million recapitalization…
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