A few weeks ago, Spokane Mayor Mary Verner warned residents that the city's fiscal shortfall in both 2010 and 2011 would be $2 million worse than she had advised earlier and would total $12 million in 2011. Yet, on its advance agenda next the is

Downtown map seller moves store to Valley Steve and Linda Mitrovich, owners of the longtime Spokane store Northwest Map Service, have moved their shop to Spokane Valley to be closer to their home, after having operated it in downtown a

The city of Spokane is planning a $1.2 million project to upgrade the energy efficiency of several buildings over the next four months.The Spokane office of Seattle-based mechanical and energy-efficiency contractor McKinstry Co. is designing the

The Gold Line, a new federally subsidized public bus service between Spokane and Kettle Falls, is set to launch here early next month, says Bill Brannan, the line's Spokane-based general manager.The service will offer two round-trips a day on to

A new restaurant to be called The Grille from Ipanema will open in November in the Parkside tower in Coeur d'Alene, says Monte Miller, a principal in Miller Stauffer Architects PA, of Coeur d'Alene, which designed and developed the building on the

Northwest Farm Credit Services has reported second-quarter net income of $34.1 million, up sharply from $18.5 million in the second quarter of 2009.Through the first six months of this year, the Spokane-based, federally-chartered ag-lending net

The Wellpinit School District, on the Spokane Indian Reservation northwest of Spokane, is planning an estimated $18 million renovation of a building that its high school now will share with the district's middle school rather than the elementary of

Whitworth University is expecting its largest ever freshman class this year. To make room for the extra incoming students, 40 returning students have agreed to move off campus in exchange for a $1,500 credit against their tuition, says Whitworth He

Idaho Independent Bank, of Coeur d'Alene, has reported a second-quarter net loss of $1.5 million, or 23 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $195,000, or 3 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter.For the six months ended June 30, the it