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Valley Fire Department updates two of its stations

$1.4 million in renovations to be finished yet this year

October 9, 2014

The Spokane Valley Fire Department is wrapping up $1.4 million worth of renovations to its University and Otis Orchards stations, says Larry Rider, deputy chief of support systems for the fire department.

Another mixed-use building planned at Kendall Yards

Three-story building would be similar to Highline Lofts

October 9, 2014

Mike McLean

North Gorge Commercial Partners LLC, an affiliate of Liberty Lake-based Greenstone Corp., plans to construct a three-story mixed-use building just east of the similarly sized Highline Lofts building in Kendall Yards.

Psychology practice buys building to handle growth

Office to ramp up to six providers, hire more staff

October 9, 2014

Mike McLean

Northwest Neurobehavioral Institute PS, a Spokane counseling and therapy practice that specializes in assessing and treating cognitive functions, has bought a 9,300-square-foot building at 1303 N. Division, north of downtown, where it plans to move next m

Coeur d'Alene builder look to restabilize

Contractors Northwest's revenues fluctuate in recession's wide wake

October 9, 2014

Mike McLean

Coeur d'Alene-based Contractors Northwest Inc. has been navigating choppy waters since the recession, says Dean Haagenson, the company's cofounder, chairman, and CEO. CNI has charted a respectable year in 2013, buoyed in part by the $14.6 million McE

Distressed properties on tour

Homebuyers can save by buying foreclosed houses

October 9, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Cindy Carrigan and her business partner, Doc Nicolson, both brokers with Keller Williams Realty Spokane Five Star Real Estate Group, have specialized in selling foreclosed homes here since 2001.

Bloom's birth resource

Organization also offering Birth Options class online

October 9, 2014

Katie Ross

Bloom Spokane, the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene area nonprofit chapter of BirthNetwork National, has released its first Hospital Maternity Guide that shows childbirth options offered by area hospitals, says Bloom founder Tine Reese and Birth Options progra

Women veteran in Spokane seeking aid for depression, PTSD

Military sexual trauma also common in female vets

October 9, 2014

Judith Spitzer

In 2008, when Cindy Jayne, 52, retired after serving 22 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve, she was angry, depressed, drinking heavily, and had threatened suicide more than once. She wasn't technically homeless, she says, but she spent the better part of a

Spokesman-Review plans 5 percent staff reduction

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October 6, 2014

Staff Report

The Spokesman-Review is offering voluntary buyouts to employees, with the intent of reducing its staff size by 5 percent, or 17 to 18 people, by the end of this year, the newspaper said this afternoon in a press release. The Spokesman-Review currently

Lee & Hayes acquires Atlanta patent-law firm

New office is Spokane firm's seventh overall

October 1, 2014

Staff Report

Lee & Hayes PLLC, a Spokane-based intellectual property law firm, announced today that it has acquired Atlanta-based Hope & Baldauff LLC. The Georgia patent-law firm has 11 attorneys, two patent agents, and six support staff members, all of whom have j

State minimum wage to increase by 15 cents an hour in 2015

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September 30, 2014

Staff Report

The minimum wage in Washington state will increase to $9.47 an hour beginning Jan. 1, up 15 cents from the current hourly rate, the Washington state Department of Labor and Industries announced today. The change reflects a 1.59 percent increase in the