Granite Investments LLC, a company headed by Spokane developer Dick Vandervert, is building a $1.8 million office building in the Pacific Northwest Technology Park, on the West Plains.The 17,000-square-foot, single-story structure is being just

Wintech Inc., a Spokane Valley importer of metal parts for the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, chemical, and irrigation industries, plans to move its warehouse in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park to a different facility there and also this

BAs much as $40 million in contract work to upgrade Spokanes waste-water treatment plant will be filtering through the economy here later this year, with much of the work to be awarded in the fall. Between about $30 million and $33 million be

Standing on the sidewalk along South Perry Streetnear a Dutch windmill that houses a natural-foods store and a service station-turned-coffee shopone can hear flurries of stomps and taps most evenings.Peer through the picture windows of a a

In the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area, selling a home is the easy part these days.Finding a new one to buy is a bit trickier. The Spokane and Coeur dAlene multiple listing services report unusually low numbers of homes for sale in those Real

Construction of luxury vacation homes and second residences near lakes in Kootenai County has increased sharply and buyers from across the country are getting in on the action. Builders say the high-end second-home market started to take off no

Access the Internet using an unprotected personal computer and a hacker will be knocking at the door within about 45 seconds. Do that with a Web server and in less than 15 minutes, theres a 50-50 chance its been taken over by someone it

A Spokane heart surgeon is performing a new, less invasive procedure, called the Wolf mini-maze, to treat the irregular heartbeat condition known as atrial fibrillation.The physician, cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon Dr. Mandya Vishwanath, a

Though available data arent good enough to help the community prioritize which health-care concerns here are most important to address, someincluding obesity, injuries, and substance abuseare certainly worthy of greater focus, the countys a

After spending the past several years expanding and remodeling its sprawling South Hill campus, Sacred Heart Medical Center is undergoing another kind of revamp: the reworking of its patient-flow strategies and day-to-day staffing needs. While