The Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center says it has leased 10,000 square feet of floor space in a two-story building on the city's North Side and has moved its administrative staff there to make room for an expansion of services at its hospital

Inland Empire Food Service Inc., of Spokane, says it plans to open a new McDonald's Corp. restaurant in the Fairways Plaza retail development near the Interstate 90-Medical Lake interchange. The outlet will be the company's sixth, all in Spokane of

John Michial Shumate and his wife, Jennifer, who own the Shumate Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership here and one in the Tri-Cities, allege in newly filed court documents that Harley-Davidson Motor Co. and two affiliate companies committed acts 9

The vacant 130,000-square-foot former Costco Wholesale Corp. store at 800 E. Third, near downtown, is to become the home of a new venture here that will offer leased storage for boats and recreational vehicles.Cip Paulsen III, whose father, Cip

Movie Gallery Inc., a Wilsonville, Ore.-based video rental chain that operates both Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video outlets in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene market, apparently has closed three of its Hollywood Video stores here.Company couldn't be

Spokane law firm Stamper Rubens PS is representing seven people, three of them Spokane residents, who claim in a federal lawsuit that they were misled into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in an oil-exploration venture off the coast of an

Texas Roadhouse Inc., a Louisville, Ky.-based restaurant chain that specializes in steaks and spareribs, plans to open a large outlet in Coeur d'Alene in March and will employ about 160 people there.Texas Roadhouse has 330 restaurants in 46 in a

Spokane-based Sterling Savings Bank says it's converting a former FirstBank Northwest branch building in Liberty Lake into a call center.The call center, which Sterling calls a customer resource center, occupies a 2,800-square-foot single-story

Jo-Ann Stores Inc., the Hudson, Ohio-based specialty retailer that does business here as Jo-Ann Fabrics & Crafts, has leased most of a building that formerly housed a Circuit City Stores Inc. outlet near the Spokane Valley Mall, says a commercial &