The Spokane County commissioners are discussing the idea of establishing a tax-increment financing district along the route of a proposed light-rail commuter system in the Spokane Valley to help get the train system built.County Commissioner the

A group that includes Spokane developer Harry Greens company has bought the former Louisiana-Pacific Corp. mill site in Post Falls and plans a mixed-use project there called the Point at Post Falls.The group, Point at Post Falls LLC, closed on

Crown West Realty LLC, of Spokane, plans to build an about $3.6 million office-and-warehouse structure in the southern portion of the big Spokane Business & Industrial Park.Crown West, which owns the 600-acre Spokane Valley park, is seeking a on

Eduard Ribic has been tinkering with wind power since his childhood days in Austria. He remembers building a wind machine at an early age that made a hammering noise to scare grape-eating birds away from vineyards his family owned. As the blades of

Two health-care providers here are proposing construction of a four- to five-story medical building near Deaconess Medical Center, on Spokanes lower South Hill.Janice Marich, a spokeswoman for Spokanes Empire Health Services, which operates

The economic slowdown is already hitting executives where it really hurtsin their own wallets.For the first time since 1996, executives of publicly traded companies in Spokane and North Idaho, on average, saw their paychecks shrink last year,

Those distant future plans for a third runway at Spokane International Airport arent so distant anymore. A draft of the airports newest master plan calls for building it as early as 2011less than 10 years from nowand by 2022 at the runway,

Coeur dAlene Mines Corp. says it has acquired exploration and mining rights to a large area adjacent to a property in Bolivia where its evaluating building a silver mine.The Coeur dAlene-based company announced in its second-quarter report

The franchisee for Applebees Neighborhood Grill restaurants in a territory that includes Spokane is seeking land near the North Division Y for its third Applebees restaurant here.The Atlanta-based Restaurant Concepts wants to lease land

Seattle-based Safeco Corp. says it plans to cut a net of 65 jobs in Spokane as part of a companywide restructuring. Returning to profitability is the main objective, says Dan Antonietti, assistant vice president of human resources in Spokane