Spokane County has increased its fees for land-use and development applications, citing a need to recover the cost of processing them. Some land-use experts, however, say the new fees, which in some cases amount to increases of thousands of are law

The Bonneville Power Administration plans to construct a 6,500-square-foot aircraft hangar at Spokane International Airport, where it keeps one to two helicopters used to spot from the air problems along its power transmission lines.Grace Gates,

Acme Concrete Paving Inc., of Spokane, has submitted a low bid of $30.7 million for a 19-month Spokane International Airport project to repave SIA's main runway and its two supporting taxiways, and to extend them by 2,000 feet.SIA had estimated

Both public and private project owners are scooping up incredible deals on construction this year, in the form of what seem like incredibly low bids for work. In some cases, contractors' bids for projects are coming in at between 30 percent and a

Keep it short.That sound advice applies not only to speeches at wedding dinners but also to the duration of your fixed-income investments in 2009.Interest-rate yields are likely to remain stuck at current low levels for a while, with nothing