The Spokane-area residential real estate market is bustling as home sales have surged, and the job market is soft, so throngs of people are choosing to become real estate agents, right?Not this time around.While hot real estate markets in a

The Spokane areas three largest four-year colleges expect record-breaking enrollments this fall, and their numbers of students continue to grow as more echo baby boomers reach college age.Freshman class sizes are increasing at Gonzaga and and

While the country grapples with the merits and methods of affirmative action, a Spokane-based nonprofit organization is helping companies comply with the equal-employment regulations that exist today.Almost 15 years ago, Associated Industries a

Coeur dAlene Mines Corp., of Coeur dAlene, says it has reached a major milestone in its 10-year quest to obtain permits to mine gold at its Kensington property near Juneau, Alaskaa project that could boost the companys annual gold by 150 by

James A. Cripe, former president and CEO of the now-defunct Outlaw Decoys Inc., has received permission from U.S. Bankruptcy Court here to proceed with a lawsuit against the company.In May, Outlaw Decoys, a Spokane Valley-based maker of hunting

Western United Life Assurance Co., a subsidiary of Spokane-based Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., has sold 29 lots in a beachfront subdivision on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu for about $29 million.C. Paul Sandifur Jr.,

Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative is investing $40 million to $45 million in new technologyincluding in the Spokane-area marketthat will standardize its computer systems and allow electronic medical record keeping at all of its 25 clinics

W. Berry Fowler, the Spokane entrepreneur who founded such franchising powerhouses as Sylvan Learning Centers and Little Gym International Inc., has sold his most recent franchising venture, national tutoring provider KnowledgePoints.Earlier it

An idea planted about a year agoto open an agricultural technology commercialization center hereappears to be breaking through the topsoil.The project, being pursued by the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, Washington State University,

When Walt and Karen Worthy were resuscitating Spokanes most upscale hotel, sculptor and arts advocate Vincent De Felice approached them with an idea. Why not build into the Davenport Hotel an exquisite art gallery as an amenity for guests and an