Taxable sales at retail stores jumped 7.9 percent in Spokane County and 6.4 percent in the city of Spokane in the third quarter of 2003, the most recent quarter for which numbers are available.Sales at retail outlets totaled $889 million in the

Qwest Communications International Inc. says it plans by midyear to bring six engineers to Spokane from its Denver headquarters to help it handle a more aggressive push to provide broadband Internet service here.Over the last few months, Qwest

DigiDeal Corp., a Spokane Valley-based maker of digital gaming tables, plans to expand its facility and start performing its own light-manufacturing and light-assembly work.Previously, the company had contracted out that work.Mike Kuhn, and

National Church Residences, a Columbus, Ohio-based nonprofit that develops low-income senior housing, plans to develop a new senior-housing facility in Deer Park and expand two complexes it currently operates in Spokane Valley. The total cost a

And residential real estate agents thought 2002 was a good year.Home sales activity reported in 2003 through the Spokane Multiple Listing Service broke records for a second consecutive year, as activity and average home prices both surged to to

As the sun starts to set on Saturday nights in the summertime, Jim Frank frequently can be found at the city of Liberty Lakes Pavilion Park.People, mostly neighbors of the park, start to spread blankets and set up lawn chairs on the parks a

Spokane County is appealing a Superior Court judges ruling that invalidated two storm-water control ordinances it had adopted in 1999 and 2002 and which had broad development-related implications here.The appeal seeks to overturn Judge Linda

When Kent Williamson and S.D. Meeks launched K.D. Steel Inc. in August 1988, the Spokane company had the humblest of beginnings.We started up with a $200 pickup, and we slept on the job sites for the first couple of years, says Williamson,

A private, nonprofit groups plans for an estimated $30 million science center on the north side of Riverfront Park are beginning to coalesce, says Chris Majer, the groups board chairman.The group, Inland Northwest Science and Technology has

A developer is selling lots in the first phase of a new, 80-acre residential project at Schweitzer Mountain Resort, near Sandpoint.Eleven of the 18 lots included in that phase of the planned development, to be called the Spires at Schweitzer,