Mid-size businesses, or tweeners, that have both storefront and Internet operations and a substantial amount of gross sales, stand to be hit hard by compliance burdens in a new effort by Washington state to boost tax collections and level the a

The Pend Oreille County Public Utility District has agreed to pay the Kalispel Tribe of Indians a minimum of $200,000 worth of wholesale electricity annually for flooding reservation lands under its Box Canyon Dam reservoir. The payments have been

Schweitzer Land & Timber Co., the real-estate arm of Schweitzer Mountain Resort, is looking for an outside developer to build at least one condominium complex in the village area of the big ski resort located just northwest of Sandpoint.The is

When shoppers flock to the new Cabelas Inc. store in Post Falls this fall, one of the more notable amenities theyll see will be a 28-foot-high indoor mountain, complete with a waterfall, a stream, and plenty of outcroppings for displays of most

Spokane-based Yokes Foods Inc., which operates a chain of 13 Yokes Fresh Market stores in the Inland Northwest, says it plans to close an outlet in northwest Spokane that it has operated for 16 years.The 30,000-square-foot store is located

Bi-Mart Corp., a Eugene, Ore.-based members-only discount retail chain, has begun work on a 31,000-square-foot store in Cheney, which will be its first outlet in the Spokane area when it opens late this fall.Construction of the store started a

Envision Land & Development LLC, of Merced, Calif., which does business as Envision Homes, says it plans to develop a 98-lot subdivision named Crystal Meadows on a 24-acre site southeast of the Interstate 90-Medical Lake interchange on the West for

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane expects to choose a buyer this week for a sizable chunk of developable land it owns on the West Plains.The nearly 93-acre site is located just west of Interstate 90 and directly south of Medical Lake Road,

Worthy Enterprises LLC, of Spokane, has committed to develop 900,000 square feet of office and warehouse space just northeast of Spokane International Airport, on a high-visibility, 80-acre piece of airport-owned land known as the Airport Tech who

New commercial and housing developments are cropping up in Suncrest, a community 10 miles northwest of Spokane that long has been a woodsy outpost along the 25-mile-long reservoir known as Long Lake. More than $20 million in commercial and is