A Spokane-based investor group plans to develop an $11.5 million office building on the West Plains and expects to begin work on the project soon, says Lowell McKee, one of the investors.The planned two-story, 47,000-square-foot structure, to be

In a move that observers say would give the region more muscle in attracting business and funding, the federal government appears likely to combine Spokane and Kootenai counties into a combined statistical area in 2013, after the 2010 Census is of

Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC, the Spokane-based contract drug manufacturer, has added about 70 employees here over the last year, and has experienced double-digit revenue growth in its fiscal year that ends March 31, but likely will see smaller

Coeur d'Alene-based North Idaho College has placed its college-credit and noncredit trades- and industry-related training programs under joint management and plans to construct a new building so it can expand and move some of its courses off last a

Temporary-help agencies here say they're seeing an encouraging increase in demand for the contract laborers they provide, though levels of optimism among those in the industry vary.Meanwhile, such companies say they're adapting to the lagging by