Plans are being discussed for a 15,000-seat domed stadium that would be built on property near the Northern Quest Casino, in Airway Heights.Tim Bainter, who owns the Spokane Nightmare semiprofessional football team here and is involved in the a

Familian Northwest Inc., a Newport News, Va.-based mechanical- and industrial-supply distributor, has leased a 57,000-square-foot building and five adjoining acres in the Spokane Valley for its main Spokane facility.The company plans to start

A few months after finishing work on a 140-unit student-housing facility to serve Eastern Washington University, ConoverBond LLC, a Spokane development company headed by Rob Brewster Jr., is eyeing more projects in Cheney.Brewster says the has

When Kevin Cronkhite finished his high school class requirements in Bakersfield, Calif., one year sooner than most kids, his father, Fred, decided to enroll the 16-year-old in some vocational classes rather than send him off to college early. long

The Spokane Area Economic Development Council and the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce will ask the state Legislature this coming session to give counties the authority to levy a voter-approved sales tax to support economic development. The a a

Washington state legislators will head to Olympia next month attempting to answer a $2.6 billion question: Whats the best way to deal with a 2003-2005 biennium deficit of such enourmous size?Something they wont lack, though, are suggestions

Two years ago, Alvin J. Fritz Wolff Jr.s four sons came to him, requesting a family meeting to discuss a departure from Spokane.It was a weighty topic to broach for the four sons, whose grandfather and father had built the family Wolff is

When American lumber companies persuaded the U.S. government to slap a countervailing duty on Canadian softwood imports more than 15 years ago, Canadian mills cut back their production, and the dispute quieted down quickly.This time around, are

MatriCal Inc., the young Spokane maker of devices used in pharmaceutical research, expects to launch at least two new products next year, while also further ramping up production of its big, robotically controlled, chemical-compound storage the in

Hip-fracture sufferers usually endure extreme pain, need surgery, and face permanent lifestyle changes. In the Spokane area, they also have lots of company.Spokane Regional Health District figures show that the number of hip fractures here is a