In a quarterly survey conducted earlier this month, Spokane business owners and managers voiced slightly greater confidence in the economy than they have all year, but suggested that they continued to believe Spokanes economy was slipping farther

Cost Plus Inc., an Oakland, Calif.-based retail chain that sells home decor and imported specialty items, says its eyeing several Spokane-area properties to find a site for an outlet it might open here by late next year.Melissa Oldenbourg, is

Are the city of Spokane and Spokane County putting down the right mix of materials to pave their roads?Spokane paving contractors say the city and county need to add recycled asphalt to the paving mix thats laid on roads here. They say it for

The U.S. Postal Service appears to be solidifying plans for a huge new processing-and-distribution center in the Spokane International Airport Business Park that will replace an older facility located near downtown.The agency recently completed

Heart surgery here and around the nation is going through a revolution.In some cases, surgeons now are using a variety of much smaller incisions to get to the heart, rather than opening up the entire chest, and are avoiding the use of a machine

The Spokane Valley Junior Soccer Association and Spokane County hope to begin work this summer on a planned 70-acre sports complex in the Spokane Valley that eventually would include 13 soccer fields and five softball diamonds.The $1.1 million

A Coeur dAlene medical practice says it plans to develop a 17-acre medical and business park at the northwest corner of Prairie Avenue and U.S. 95 there.Hayden Lake Family Physicians, which is owned by Dr. Mark Borsheim and Dr. Terry Riske, to

One of Spokanes biggest auto dealerships, Appleway Automotive Group, has bought the rights for Washington and Idaho to open nationally franchised used-car superstores called Drivers Marts, each of which is expected to carry large inventories of

A common sight in the heavily urban Kansai Region of Japan is that of a man in dapper business attire riding a bicycle, carrying a portfolio case in his bikes front basket and holding a cellular phone to his ear.Spokane delegates who returned

The Washington state Department of Transportation finally has released its preferred route for the long-proposed north-south freeway, which would carry traffic between Interstate 90 on the south and both U.S. 2 and U.S. 395 north of Spokane.DOT