Stratford Suites Inn LLC, of Airway Heights, is developing a new extended-stay lodging facility there at an estimated cost of $6 million, and plans to complete the project by next April.The lodging facility will include 15 four-unit structures,

A company owned by longtime Spokane real estate executive Mark Pinch plans to break ground in November on two warehouse buildings in Spokane Valley. A total of four bays in the two buildings will be offered for sale.Each of the one-story will a

The Spokane Park Board has given Mobius Science Center backers until Dec. 31 to address concerns some of the boards members have about business-plan projections for the proposed center, which would be located on city-owned land just north of the

Workers wearing heavy clothing pull red-hot steel from a forge and wrestle it into a jig, its coarse, glowing surface straining as it finds its new shape. The men use metal tongs as the instruments of change as they bend the hot, malleable metal a

Businesses here say theyre scrambling to find ways to offset escalating fuel prices, and some say their livelihoods might soon be running on empty.Although rising fuel prices affect almost everyone, energy-intensive users such as farmers, and

Hotel-occupancy rates in the Spokane area are holding up this year at about the same level as last year, despite the down year projected for the industry, and have allowed some hoteliers to raise room rates. Because of that, revenue per room, a

Holy Family Hospital says construction could begin as early as next March on a major expansion that would include both additional hospital space and two to four floors of privately owned medical-office space. The hospital estimates the cost of

Although the benefits from Medicare supplement insurance, also known as Medigap, have been standardized since 1992, consumers continue to encounter striking differences in premium rates for policies that offer identical coverage, says Weiss Ratings

Customized programs and new medicines for the millions of Americans who suffer from dementia-related illnesses are being used here to ease the process of irreversible memory loss, and dementia-care experts are expecting rising demand for those as a

Spokane Baptist Association Homes CEO Glen Pierce realized four years ago that if the organizations 96-unit Holman Gardens Retirement Community, in Spokane Valley, wanted to survive, it would need to undergo a financial restructuring.To make