The city of Spokane has selected DKS Associates, of Portland, to prepare a traffic improvement study for the University District and downtown Spokane.The firm, which specializes in transportation forecasting analysis, is being asked to collect

Red Lion Hotels Corp.s expansion strategy announced last week calls for it to enter some of the biggest markets in the West, along with Chicago and Dallas, as it seeks to strengthen the brand of its hotel chain.The Spokane company, which now

Crown West Realty LLC, of Spokane Valley, has bought for $16.1 million a two-building office complex in Phoenix. The complex, called Foothills Corporate Centre II, is the eighth property the Spokane company has acquired in the Phoenix area and

Providence Services, the Spokane-based parent of Sacred Heart Medical Center and a collection of other health-care entities in Eastern Washington and Montana, says it and its Seattle-based counterpart, Providence Health Systems, have begun studying

Carolynn Bohlman doesnt get to spend much time in the saddle herself, but the small equestrian-focused business here that commands most of her time keeps her in close touch with plenty of horse lovers who do.She owns Foxy Horse & Hound, a and

Longtime Spokane banking executive Duane Brandenburg is spearheading efforts to form a new bank here, tentatively called RiverBank.Brandenburg says he and others who have joined him in the venture hope to file the necessary documents with the &

The housing boom in Post Falls is showing no signs of slowing.Two major housing projectswith a total of a whopping 2,700 planned unitsare under way, and a third about 900-unit project is slated to go before the Planning Commission next with

Though big wind-energy projects have yet to be proposed in Spokane County, a flurry of such development activity elsewhere in the Inland Northwest is bringing revenue here, and more projects are being eyed.Spokane-based Taylor Engineering Inc.

Regence Blue Shield of Idaho has launched a new service that will give its members online access to information about their claims.Separately, the Lewiston, Idaho-based health insurer, which has almost 10,600 members in Kootenai County, has up

Last Feb. 27, Jack Kestell was spending a casual Sunday afternoon shopping at an Ace Hardware store in his T-shirt and jeans when he got the frantic call from his wife, Denise: A fire had started in the basement of the familys South Hill home. at