The Spokane-area economy has added more jobs in the first five months of 2006 than it did during the year-earlier period, when it also turned in a strong performance.An average of 6,240 more people were employed in nonagricultural wage and here

After two years of unprecedented increases in the dollar volume of construction and five years of growth in the number of homes sold in the Spokane area, both numbers are declining so far here in 2006. Industry sources point out, however, that

The owners of Sun Dance Golf Course, located northwest of Spokane, have negotiated a sale of the course to Spokane couple Ron and Jill McIntire.The McIntires plan to keep Sun Dance, located at 9725 N. Nine Mile Road, open, and hope to convert a

Mines Management Inc., a small Spokane-based mining company, has registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to sell up to $65 million in securities to raise money primarily to use in pursuing its proposed Montanore project in calls

In a letter penned earlier this year, Sterling Financial Corp. executives told shareholders that its Sterling Savings Bank had become the leading community bank in the Pacific Northwest.What it really would like to do is drop Pacific and is

Going once, going twice, sold! Bidders wont hear Tom Reinland utter that familiar phrase, even though the Reinland family has been holding auctions here since the mid 1960s.Thats because Reinland, despite his ability to rattle off of at a

The Spokane City Council has approved annexation of 496 acres of land near the northwest corner of the city.The property, which already was partly bordered by the city, is mostly west of Albi Stadium and is east and north of the Spokane River.

Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, which has nearly 130,000 members in Eastern Washington and North Idaho, says it plans to open a larger clinic on the South Hill.Group Health recently signed a 10-year lease agreement with Dr. John who the

Avista Corp., renamed seven years ago, is looking for a new name again.The 117-year-old Spokane company, which originated as Washington Water Power Co., will change its name as part of its transition to a holding company structure, says Jessie

A more than 40 percent jump in asphalt prices over about the last year has shocked Spokane-area paving contractors, delayed some projects, and caused government officials here to fret about potential cutbacks in future repaving work.It will a