My first duty as Spokane County Sheriff is to ensure the safety of our citizens. Any issue that could impact the ability of the Spokane County Sheriff's Department to respond to an emergency in a timely manner naturally gets my attention.So when

Proprietors rename shop Donut DugoutOwners of the Post Falls bakery formerly known as The Donut House have renamed the shop The Donut Dugout.The new name reflects co-owner Dennis Gross's lifelong love of baseball, says Kellie Gross, his and a

Spokane-based McCabe Group Inc., a Papa Murphy's Take-N-Bake Pizza franchisee with two outlets here, soon will move a store located farther north on Division Street to a building it's developing on Ruby Street along the Division-Ruby McCabe, who is

Triple Play Family Fun Park, the amusement center attached to the Holiday Inn Express, in Hayden, Idaho, recently added a 350-foot water slide to its Raptor Reef indoor water park and a synthetic-ice rink in an outdoor section of the center, says a

Liberty Lake-based software and cloud-computing consulting company 2nd Watch Inc. has been named a premier consulting partner by Amazon Web Services LLC, a Seattle-based cloud-computing platform.Jeff Aden, president and co-founder of 2nd Watch,

Ernest Health Inc., the Albuquerque, N.M.-based health care provider that operates an acute-care hospital in Post Falls, says it's partnering with Coeur d'Alene-based Kootenai Health, to construct a 30-bed rehabilitation hospital there that it will

Gold Reserve Inc., the Spokane-based mine-exploration company, says it's assembling a response to an international arbitration panel's recent request asking for additional evidence in its $2.1 billion claim against the Venezuelan government over a

Spokane County ranks eighth among Washington state counties in terms of per-capita retail sales in a 2012 Washington State retail survey released late last month.The survey, issued by Jim Vaughn, of Pollock Pines, Calif., lists Spokane County's

Spokane Public Schools recently has sold $50 million worth of bonds at an historic low interest rate of 2.9 percent as part of the 2009 voter-approved $288 million bond authorization to fund school construction projects, school district say.The