The number of cancer survivors in the U.S. increased to 11.7 million in 2007, according to a report released earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of

Lighting and staging company expands Silhouette Lights & Staging Ltd. has built a 2,400-square-foot warehouse at 6507 W. Alderbrook Lane, just south of the Geiger Field-Interstate 90 interchange, to accommodate its growing says owner

The push to derive more of our energy needs from renewable resources is laudable and something we all want to see. A big unanswered question, especially in this new-reality economy, is how much of a premium we're all willing to pay for it. Perhaps

The city of Spokane has revised slightly the construction schedule for the street rehabilitation work being performed downtown on Second Avenue, which began earlier this month. The city had said it planned to stagger construction into three this

Spokane-based GVD Commercial Properties Inc. says it intends this spring to demolish the former Discovery School building at 307 W. Fourth near downtown. It has no immediate plans for the property, but says it expects to develop a commercial there

Leslie's Furniture & Framing, an upscale used-furniture and picture-framing shop, has leased 6,000 square feet of space in the Harbor Ridge retail center, at 1600 W. Seltice Way, in Post Falls, and has moved there from smaller quarters in Hayden. a

Tim Spilker, former president of a prominent masonry company here, says he has bought the assets of an architectural-concrete manufacturing concern and has formed a new entity through which he'll run the renamed operation.He acquired the assets