Spokane-area business advocates say their top priorities heading into the next session of the Washington Legislature will be to protect budget items approved last year, seek more money for items that werent fully funded, and watch for additional

Dissatisfied with proposals it received from prospective vendors interested in providing it with long-term renewable energy, Avista Corp. says it now is looking at building its own wind-power plant to meet some of those future electrical-generation

Health-care-related real estate activity has been brisk here as doctors groups and commercial real estate developers continue to pursue medical office building projects. Experts say they anticipate more growth in that real estate niche as Spokane

The growth of Ground Force Manufacturing LLC, a Post Falls company that converts large truck chassis into giant support vehicles for even bigger mining vehicles, is mirroring that of fast-growing regions of the world that are starved for company, a

Liberty Lake is enjoying a spate of big commercial projects, and theres no letup expected soon in the flow of residential building in the six-year-old city.Doug Smith, director of planning and community development, says building permit this

Hotel room-tax revenues in Spokane County shot up 15 percent through Octoberthe highest increase through the first 10 months of the year since 1991thanks both to rising demand and hikes in room rates, the Spokane Regional Convention and Bureau

The U.S. Air Force says it has selected Newton Square, Penn.-based GMH Military Housing to privatize housing at Fairchild Air Force Base and two other bases in the West, although a contract still must be negotiated.Under the privatization plan,

A new transportation plan for Kootenai County maps out more than 200 road projects through the year 2030 that would have an estimated total cost of $852 million. The plan for the county, where rapid growth is expected to continue into the future, a

Spokane Transfer & Storage Co. is revisiting its roots to keep a stable base in a changing trucking industry, says Doug Ross, its president. Keeping revenue steady this year with the loss of three of the companys five largest national due to

Scarsella Bros. Inc., of Seattle, is the apparent low bidder, with a bid of $17.3 million, for a contract to construct a 1,330-foot-long at-grade tunnel to carry Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railways tracks under the north-south freeway near bid,