The key to improving engineering programs while also boosting the number of women interested in the male-dominated field might be curricula that emphasize hands-on, service-based learning as well as traditional academic and technical knowledge. a a

The Spokane Valley franchise of Other Mothers Inc., an Albuquerque, N.M.-based concern that sells new and used women's, children's, and maternity clothes and children's furniture, has leased 3,300 square feet of space at 2727 S. Mount Vernon for a

A Baylor University study has found that most consumers rely on three basic factors when selecting a real estate agent for buying or selling a home.Through their focus group study, researchers with the Keller Center at Baylor's Hankamer School a

There was never a better time for Lars Knudsen to realize one of his goals: to buy a home on Lake Sammamish.The 51-year-old financial planner is taking advantage of the battered home market across the Puget Sound region. He has snapped up a a

T. Bailey Inc., of Anacortes, Wash., has begun work under a $1.2 million contract with the city of Spokane to construct a 1.1 million-gallon, 134-foot-high water reservoir on Five Mile Prairie.The city expects that the reservoir will boost water

Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, has started work on the $9.5 million first phase of the Washington State Veterans Cemetery-Medical Lake, says Richard Cesler, the cemetery's director.The cemetery, which is slated to open next Memorial Day, A

The city of Spokane recently approved a conditional use permit for Spokane-based State Farm Insurance agent Jack Praxel to convert a single-family home into an office for his agency on Spokane's South Hill.Praxel plans to move his office to the

Spokane Rock Products Inc. has won a $724,000 contract with Spokane County to construct a new road just south of Spokane International Airport to help spur future development there. County contract engineer Chad Coles says the work is to begin a