While a few apartment projects currently are in various stages of planning and development in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area, and the apartment rental market here is being called relatively stable, 2009 has been a slow year for new apartment here,

Washington State University says it has selected two Spokane contractors to construct separate projects on its Pullman Campus with a combined value of $131 million.Lydig Construction Inc. has won a contract to build WSU's planned $96 million and

In this economy, employers are getting creative, adding sometimes nontraditional benefits to help employees save money in their personal budgets by taking advantage of group rates their managers negotiated.While many familiar benefits remain, as