When it came to their own paychecks, the executives of Spokane-area publicly traded companies collectively fared much better in the most recent fiscal year than did their employers.An annual Journal of Business analysis of the compensation of 75

The city of Spokane has declared as surplus slightly more than seven acres of land on both the southwest and southeast corners of the intersection of Southeast Boulevard and 31st Avenue on the South Hill. Also, it has agreed to sell about two acres

MacKay Manufacturing Inc., a longtime Spokane precision machine shop, says it broke ground earlier this month on a 10,000-square-foot expansion of its Spokane Valley plant in an effort to keep up with growing demand for its work.The expansion, a

Jim Sheehan, a longtime Spokane attorney, has bought the former Birkebeiner Brewing Co. building at 35 W. Main in downtown Spokane and has started a $1 million renovation project there.The remodeling project involves converting the three-story,

Ranch & Home Supply Inc., a Bozeman, Mont.-based company that operates a small chain of Big R Ranch & Home Supply stores, has broken ground on a 51,000-square-foot outlet along U.S. 2 near Mead.John Murdock, owner of Ranch & Home Supply, says to

Sacred Heart Medical Center has bought a former nursing home located near the medical centers complex, but hasnt decided yet how it will use the property.Sacred Heart acquired the former Southcrest Subacute and Specialty Care Center at 110 a

COEUR DALENETheres a store here where you can view an original front page from the New York Herald printed the day after John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln. Also on display is an elaborate framed costume thats believed to have

Spokane developer and architect Ron Wells says Wells & Co., which he heads, is close to buying the Fairmont Apartments building downtown and hopes to convert the gutted six-story structure into an upscale office building with retail space on the by

Five years ago, waist-high weeds dominated cracked sidewalks along South Perry Street, drug deals went down in the middle of the day, and graffiti-covered commercial buildings sat boarded up and vacant, some residents there say.This area was &