Spokane-area entrepreneur Bernard Daines is considering whether to expand substantially the size of a planned addition to the Liberty Lake Internet Portal building, in Liberty Lake. In June, Daines disclosed plans to build a two-story, addition

Tis the season to shop, and recent sales figures hold promise that retail businesses here will be booming during the holidays as consumers stuff their stockings to the brim.Taxable sales have been climbing in 2005, and experts are a strong to

Just two years after it opened, Sacred Heart Medical Centers Childrens Hospital, in anticipation of higher volumes of young patients this winter, says its making changes to its general and intermediate pediatric care units to make its more to

A $34.6 million nursing college building planned at the Riverpoint Higher Education Park is back on the drawing boards for redesign after construction cost estimates came in $4 million over budget.Consequently, the construction schedule for the

In a digital age in which businesses regularly are inundated with information that must be stored and categorized, demands for new larger-capacity equipment and other data-storage resources are rising at a blistering pace.Although many and now

You probably didnt want to hear this, but that e-mail you sent last weekyou know, the one you wished you could take backhas been saved in about five different places and actually could end up as evidence in court.Oh, and by the way, your

Downtown Toyota/Lexus Inc., of Spokane, says it plans to remodel and more than double the size of its Toyota facility as part of a systemwide Toyota Motor Corp. dealership renovation program.The majority of the work involves extending and a at

Columbia Basin Federal Credit Union, a Moses Lake, Wash.-based institution with three offices, plans to merge into Horizon Credit Union, of Spokane Valley.Brian Grytdal, Horizons vice president of marketing, says the boards of both credit the

A Spokane company plans to buy a 22.5-acre parcel used as an exotic animal farm in northeast Spokane and has proposed developing a 276-unit apartment complex there. The company, Consortium Investments LLC, is seeking preliminary-plat approval a

Bluegrass Development LLC, of Coeur dAlene, is set to begin installing utilities for a planned 148-lot single-family home development southwest of the intersection of Spokane Street and Prairie Avenue in Post Falls.John Magnuson, who owns Tom