In talking with people about retirement, I've found a few areas that tend to be regularly overlooked. The reasons for that range from simply not having thought of them to not having any plan for how things change once you're actually retired. are a

March 11 / County's growth boundary expandedSpokane County commissioners voted unanimously to expand the county's urban growth boundary, adding about 6,000 acres of land for residential development and 1,000 acres for commercial and industrial a

Meetings & EventsGreater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold a business connections breakfast on Friday, March 15, at 7 a.m., at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, 1100 N. Sullivan. Sherriff Ozzie Knezovich will present an of in

Facility maintenance company opens hereSuperior Maintenance Solutions LLC, an Everett, Wash.-based facilities maintenance business, has entered the Spokane market, says Matt Biggerstaff, Spokane general manager for the company.Biggerstaff, a

Spokane Turbine Center, a missionary-pilot training nonprofit started here in 2008, has bought from Spokane Airports two structures at Felts Field that it previously had leased. One is a 24,000-square-foot hangar, and the other is a two-floor CEO a

Campbell & Bissell PLLC, a Spokane law firm specializing in construction law, has moved to the historic Corbet-Aspray House on the lower South Hill, and renovations are under way to restore the structure and convert it to a multitenant office says

I consider myself a seasoned air show junkie, but I'm not lamenting the recently announced cancellation of the popular SkyFest event and Thunderbirds precision flying exhibition that had been set for mid-May at Fairchild Air Force Base.Visit a I

Spokane-based No-Li Brewhouse LLC, which formerly did business as Northern Lights Brewing Co., is leasing an additional 4,000 square feet of storage space in a warehouse near its brewery so it can expand its craft beer production, says co-owner is

Fatbeam LLC, a Post Falls-based provider of broadband fiber-optic networks, has won contracts in Montana and Tacoma that have combined value of more than $3 million.To serve the new markets, Fatbeam plans initially to invest about $2.5 million a

Great Falls, Mont.-based CSWW Inc., which does business as Big R Stores, says it has acquired nearly 30 acres of land on the West Plains and plans to develop a retail store there.The property is south of and adjacent to the Cyrus O'Leary's Pies