Washington state now has certified 13 Spokane-area businesses to participate in the community-empowerment zone established here two years ago, says Mark Turner, president of the Spokane Area Economic Development Council.Triumph Composite Inc.,

The Spokane Public Facilities District board plans to name a general contractor-construction manager for the Spokane Convention Center expansion project on June 17, says Kevin Twohig, the districts executive director.Representatives of eight

R.A. Pearson Co., the Spokane-based designer and manufacturer of packaging machinery, has secured a contract with Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. to make 80 new machines for the soft-drink bottler. The machines will help Coca-Cola efficiently its in

The Coeur dAlene School District is gearing up to start a $23 million, four-year capital-improvement planan ambitious roster of construction projects that includes replacing Hayden Lake Elementary and modernizing Lakes Middle School.Coeur a

Collecting postcards and stamps isnt for those short on time and attention span, Mike and Kathy McLean say. To find a desirable item, the owners of Vintage Postcards & Stamps say, a collector often must sift through hundreds of items to find

Spokane developer Rob Brewster Jr. has bought seven buildings and a parking lot in the east end of downtown Spokane and is planning a multimillion-dollar construction-and-renovation project there.The buildings include a total of about 84,000 of

The Spokane areas four major hospitals together spent about $12.3 million on charity care last year and wrote off about another $13.8 million in bad debt. Though that combined $26.1 million rose just 4 percent last year, some first-quarter a rate

Hoping to attract more people at the younger end of the 55-and-over spectrum, Touchmark Living Centers Inc., of Beaverton, Ore., has proposed a $20 million offsite expansion of independent-living housing for its big Waterford on South Hill company

The $17 million expansion project at Valley Hospital & Medical Center wont be fully completed until later this year, but the hospital already has launched a handful of new or upgraded services in its expanded and remodeled space.In one key to

The American Journal of Physiology, a Bethesda, Md.-based leading scientific journal, plans to publish a study conducted by a group of Heart Institute of Spokane researchers, who found that diets high in protein harm the kidneys, especially in that