Despite a one-third increase in foreclosure actions in the first quarter compared with the year-earlier period, Spokane County's default rate was among the lowest in the U.S.'s metropolitan areas, says RealtyTrac, a national foreclosure data the of

Cascade Windows, a longtime Spokane Valley manufacturer of vinyl windows, has acquired a Portland-area window maker with more than 100 employees and a high-end window line that will broaden Cascade Window's product mix.Randall Emerson says he &

Washington State University Spokane's managers believe the school's branch campus here will need 370,000 square feet of additional space by 2015 to accommodate growing demands.That amount of net new square footage is an estimate developed part a

As much as $260 million in construction work is under way or planned in the near term at Fairchild Air Force Base, including a replacement of its runway, a major fuel-line project, and a continued overhaul of base housing, military officials of the

Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, has begun site work for construction of a multimillion-dollar data center that Expeditors International of Washington Inc. plans to open in Airway Heights.Expeditors, a big Seattle-based global logistics to

Trains are running regularly now on the newly realigned Geiger Spur rail line on the West Plains, and businesses that depend on the line say they're relieved the connection will be available long term for receiving and shipping freight.The Geiger

The West Plains has an array of commercial and residential construction projects that are moving ahead, despite the anchor-dragging effects of the recession, and developers and builders say a number of pending or stalled projects could resume when

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital's says a new radiation treatment machine it recently installed, along with some optional features that will be installed later, will enable the hospital to improve its accuracy in tumors,