Avista News

Two of Avista Co.'s former energy traders will receive $760,000 in severance payments.

Avista Corp. is expanding its education programs aimed at conserving energy and trimming customers' utility bills.

Cold weather requires a lot of adjustments. Close the windows. Get out the sweaters.

Avista, on behalf of the 26 signatories to the Clark Fork Settlement Agreement, has finalized the acquisition and transfer of a 125-acre parcel of land on Upper Gold Creek in Bonner County to complete an exchange with the Idaho Department of Lands for property along Trestle Creek that Avista can use in bull trout restoration projects.

Avista is either duped or morally bankrupt for going along with a cap and trade scheme.

Your Nov. 25 article detailing Avista Corp.'s activity and activism concerning their support for cap-and-trade legislation is discouraging.

Firefighters had to block off North Monroe Street in Northeast Spokane late Monday night to battle a garage fire.

A car ran into the Broadway Bar and Grill on West Broadway near downtown Spokane Saturday night.

Avista will lead a smart grid demonstration project that will create the first a oesmart communitya in the Pacific Northwest.

Avista will lead a smart grid demonstration project that will create the first "smart community" in the Pacific Northwest.

Snohomish County PUD plans to use federal stimulus money to get a bigger jolt from renewable resources.

Avista CIO Jim Kensok explains how he and his team used innovative IT to better serve customers.

Whether Avista Utilities crew dispatchers qualify as supervisors will be decided by the National Labor Relations Board, once that labor-regulating body fills vacancies on its panel.

Two separate car crashes in Spokane brought down Avista power poles overnight. The first happened at Indiana and Monroe, then the second just blocks away near Montgomery and Jefferson.

SPOKANE, Wash.- Right now Avista crews are on the scene of a vehicle that crashed into a power pole at Indiana and Monroe.

Avista Utilities contributed $200,000 to energy assistance for low-income residents in Washington and Idaho through its Project Share Fund, the corporation announced.

Jeff Heggedahl will take over as president and chief executive officer of Advantage IQ on Dec.

Prices this heating season for Avista's 312,000 natural gas customers in Washington, Idaho and Oregon will be at their lowest level in at least five years with this week's approval of Avista's most recent Purchase Gas Cost Adjustments by the public utility commission in each state.

Avista Corp. today reported a 9 percent increase in third-quarter earnings, and projected better results for 2010.

Avista has been chosen to receive a matching grant in the range of $20 million from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project to upgrade portions of the utility's electric distribution system to smart grid standards.