It's easy enough to come down hard on Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan for putting his name to a fundraising letter that called Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee a "lying whore." Everybody from his fellow city council members to Spokesman-Review a

The Spokane Regional Transportation Council is slated to add $5.5 million in projects to its 2013-2016 transportation improvement program, pending board approval next month, says SRTC spokeswoman Staci Lehman.The 13 proposed projects, which are

Spokane Public Schools is expected to conduct an early round of hiring starting March 1 to fill 51 full-time teaching positions for the next academic year, says Tennille Jeffries-Simmons, chief human resources officer for the district.The are in

The Washington state Supreme Court has found in a 5-4 ruling that Providence Health Care improperly terminated an employee here under provisions of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.Dissenting Supreme Court justices contended that the of

Spokane Teachers Credit Union, of Liberty Lake, has reported 2012 net income of $21.8 million, up 14 percent compared with income of $19.1 million in 2011. Bill Before, STCU's chief financial officer, says a $1.6 million decrease in the credit a

Northwest Farm Credit Services, the big Spokane-based agricultural lender and crop insurance provider, has reported record net income of $187.3 million for 2012, up from prior-year earnings of $159.2 million, which also were a record.The loan by

Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp., of Coeur d'Alene, says it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Orko Silver Corp., of Vancouver, British Columbia, in a transaction that's valued at about $350 million and expected to close in in is

Spokane Valley-based manufacturer True Seals LLC, operating under the tutelage of former Nott-Atwater Co. President Jim Hemingway, is looking to fill a void created when that company's longtime manufacturing facility here shut down more than a year