Seattle-based residential lender HomeStreet Inc. has brought a program here that's aimed at making homeownership more accessible to workforces of participating employers by reducing mortgage-related costs and fees, says Andy Slipper, Spokane-area a

The Washington state Department of Transportation has awarded a contract valued at just under $1.7 million to Spokane-based Inland Asphalt Co. to resurface about six miles of Interstate 90 on the West Plains.Spokane-based DOT spokesman Al Gilson

The Spokane Airport Board has awarded a $7.5 million contract to Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. to erect a building at Spokane International Airport for storing new snow-removal equipment purchased recently for more than $3.8 spokesman Todd

In May, the Deloitte Consumer Spending Index posted its first three-month increase since September 2010.The index tracks consumer cash flow as an indicator of future consumer spending. "The index's increase is due to an ongoing slowdown in a

The American Trucking Association's advanced seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index fell 0.7 percent in May. This slight decrease follows a 1.1 percent decline in April, which was reported on May 22. The latest drop lowered the to a

Information technology operational budgets across the U.S. and Canada are rising 2.2 percent at the median this year, a rate that is a slight improvement compared with the 2 percent growth in 2011, says the recently released IT benchmarking study a

Even as the job market has rebounded during the last two years, the employment prospects for young college graduates have continued to deteriorate, says a new report by Paul E. Harrington and Neeta P. Fogg, labor economists in Philadelphia-based of