Spokane developer Dick Vandervert is ready to breathe new life into two long-dormant buildings in the citys core.With an anchor tenant in hand, a newly formed company headed by Vandervert is taking on an anticipated $9.2 million project the a

Most Monday mornings these days, youll find Mert Malek faithfully chasing the ol white ball around Liberty Lake Golf Course.The retired banker is one of about 200 men who call themselves the Over-the-Hill Gang and meet once a week on the to

Once mostly interested in young, healthy males, clinical researchers here say seniors now play an integral role in testing new drugs and medical devices.Spokane has a large, fairly nontransient population of older adults, they say, allowing the

North Idaho College is schooling trainers so they can offer project-management training to businesses throughout Idaho and in the Spokane area.The trainers will receive a certification in project-management instruction.The program, funded a

Studying a relationship between wages and chocolate might seem like a peculiar analysis for an economist to perform.Yet for William Dillingham, a Spokane-based regional labor economist for the Washington state Employment Security Department, an

A construction-education program that was intended to train displaced workers has blossomed quickly into its own small vocational school.Two months ago, the Inland Northwest Associated General Contractors and WorkSource Spokane began offering a

IT-LifeLine Inc., a small data backup and recovery company here, plans to move its office and data center into larger quarters at the Liberty Lake Internet Portal building, in Liberty Lake.Steven Tabacek, president of IT-LifeLine, says the has

The owner of a longtime grain elevator complex just north of downtown Spokane has put the property up for sale, and the commercial real estate broker marketing the massive structure for possible mixed-use redevelopment says he has received an offer

Spokanes economy has rebounded to nearly where it was before the swoon that began in 2001, according to the most recent Economic Activity Index compiled by Washington State University professor Don Epley.That index estimates growth in power a

The Spokane Area Economic Development Council expects this month to get some fresh ideas on how to beef up the economy here. California-based economic-development consultant Audrey E. Taylor, who will offer those ideas, says that boosting a can