Amid continued falling home prices, U.S. home buyers still are negotiating discounts at the bargaining table, according to July's Zillow Real Estate Market Reports, the latest month for which figures are available.Buyers paid 3.3 percent—or

Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners, a nonprofit that serves low-income people here, says it will receive $5.1 million in federal stimulus funds over the next two years that will allow its weatherization program to benefit about two times the of

The city of Spokane has bought, for $369,000, 5.5 acres of mostly vacant land, at 4250 E. 30th, on Spokane's South Hill to add to what's called a wetland bank there. The city-owned property there, which is bounded roughly by 30th and 32nd and is

Vandervert Construction Inc., of Spokane, has won a contract to build a $1 million gas station here for Fred Meyer Stores, and has started work on the project site near the retail chain's outlet in the East Central neighborhood, the Portland-based

Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, has been awarded a $1 million contract to construct a new garbage-transfer station for Benewah County, Idaho.J. Michele Reynolds, the Benewah County clerk, says the county has started site preparation for the

Kop Construction Co., of Spokane, has won contracts for two affordable housing projects in Washington state worth a combined almost $5 million.One is a two-site, $1.6 million Moses Lake, Wash., multifamily project being developed by Community a

Blew's Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, has won a contract for a $5.7 million school modernization project in Yakima, Wash.In the project, Blew's will upgrade the West Valley School District's former high-school building, which the district

Belsby Engineering LLC, of Spokane, has been contracted to find an alternative source of drinking water for the Hunters Water District in Stevens County—which has two wells, but arsenic levels in them exceed state and federal drinking water a