Kootenai Medical Center plans to start work on a $3.4 million expansion of its emergency department and its laboratory this month.The size of the hospitals emergency department will double and its lab space will increase by about 30 percent,

A Spokane family has bought Halletts Chocolate Factory, a longtime candy manufacturer here that closed its doors in late spring, and has reopened the business with help from its original owners.The Spokane family, Patty Kane and her Kitty, to

A Portland-based company that co-developed the 104-unit Deer Run at Northpointe apartment project on Spokanes North Side two years ago now plans to build another 108 apartment units next door in an $8.8 million project.The company, PacifiCap

Developers of property in the city of Spokane could be working under new zoning regulations by fall, and city planners claim the new standards will be more sensible and easier to use than the current ones.The Spokane Plan Commission recently of

Kevin Lessard admits that sometimes its easier to correct troubled canines than his own young children.He can relate to dogs. He understands how they think, act, and communicate. His two high-energy boys, well, thats another the owner of a

An investment group headed by Spokane contractor Barry Baker has agreed to buy the historic Schade Brewery building. The five-story structure is located at 528 E. Trent, next to the Riverpoint Higher Education Park just east of downtown It a of

Congress has earmarked $17.1 million for new housing at Fairchild Air Force Base.The U.S. Air Force, however, is studying whether to have a private builder develop and remodel homes at the West Plains base through a process called If that were

The small farming town of Colfax is buzzing with something other than the sound of combines at harvest time.About $3 million in historic renovation work led by a Spokane company that is buying up property there has some of the towns leaders a

A small Spokane Valley company has discovered that automated teller machines can do more than dispense moneythey can help generate it. Since Samantha and Michael Guthrie founded Automated ATM Solutions Inc. seven years ago, the company has a

Sterling Savings Bank Chairman and CEO Bill Zuppe has ducks all over his office.They dont quack, but they do make a statement. The yellow, plush-toy birds symbolize to the Spokane banker what he sees as an unfair competitive advantage off