Prominent Spokane developer Lanzce Douglass has applied to the city of Liberty Lake for permission to develop a 120-space recreational-vehicle park on 12 acres of land just south of Interstate 90. If the project moves forward, it would be the second RV pa

Spokane Public Schools has bought a nearly 2-acre parcel of land at 2904 E. Sprague, where the district plans eventually to expand student-education and staff-training programs based at the nearby Libby Center, says Mark Anderson, the district's associa

Being born into a newspaper family, and working at weekly newspapers from the time I could handle a broom and dust pan or carry out other printer's devil duties, I knew before I'd finished elementary school what I wanted to do when I grew up. Many yo

Alarm bells rung by contractors and others in the construction trades regarding the current worker shortage should be heard by educators and civic leaders, and efforts to fill the employee pipeline require action beyond those of the building industry alon

Elder Law Group PLLC has moved its office to 711 W. Indiana, Ste. 102, says Lynn St. Louis, owner. The firm, which previously had been located at 207 W. Nora, about a half mile east of the new office, moved to accommodate business growth, says St. Louis.

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians is seeking federal air quality redesignation, which could prevent certain industries from locating on or near the tribe's Usk, Wash.-based reservation, says Dean Osterman, the tribe's executive director of natural resourc

Spokane Overstock LLC, which operates Overstocked Mattress & Furniture stores in Spokane and Spokane Valley, has opened two additional stores this summer, in Hayden and Missoula, giving it four in all, and says it plans to keep expanding. Owner Nathan

Spokane-based Armitage Cleaning LLC has launched a commercial 'security-minded cleaning service” that's designed to benefit clients who have work environments where protecting sensitive information is important. Christopher Armitage, who co-owns th

The city of Spokane says the business registration amnesty program it set up has reduced by 1,000 the number of unregistered businesses that are located in the city or do business here. City taxes and license specialist Margaret Redd says there now are r

Fueled by continued strong loan growth, WTB Financial Corp., the Spokane-based parent of Washington Trust Bank, says its second quarter net income rose by just more than $1 million from the end of the 2016 second quarter. Larry Sorenson, Washington Trust