Spokane developer Rob Brewster Jr. says he has revised his plans for the $22 million Havermale Park mixed-use development at the east end of downtown to include a possible 22- or 23-story high-rise building.As envisioned, the tower would about

For Deke Cloyd, every picture does tell a story.Hes got a tale for each photograph that hangs from the walls of the quirky space he leases in the largely vacant Music City building in downtown Spokane. If youve got the time, hell bend ear

Spokane Mayor Jim West says he plans to pursue a major reorganization of city government aimed at improving Spokanes economy.The planstelegraphed in his campaign and embraced by his community-based transition teamcall for creating a new,

Sandpoint, which counts on good snow years at Schweitzer Mountain Resorts ski area to help drive its economy, is receiving a blizzard of business from recreation-home buyers after Sunset magazine covered the Idaho city in a glistening story in in

Just as the Inland Northwest economy has shown signs of getting off the ground again, soaring building-materials prices threaten to clip its wings.Steel prices have risen sharply in recent months, and Spokane-area companies that do business in

Online enrollment for benefits continues to be the No. 1 choice for U.S. employees, with 77percent using the Internet to enroll this year, according to research conducted by Hewitt Associates, the big human resources outsourcing and consulting an

The Spokane office of Marsh might seem like a remote outpost for a multibillion-dollar-a-year parent company that claims to be the worlds leading insurance and risk-management services provider.Its no slouch, though, within the huge It was

Employers here say spiraling health-insurance premiums and other benefit-related labor costs are forcing them to trim pay raises and bonuses for their workers.Benefit-cost increases are outpacing wage increases by a wide margin, with premiums 5

Agricultural workers who perform thinningremoving young buds from orchard trees to increase the size of the remaining fruitface a greater likelihood of pesticide exposure than other farm workers, according to new findings from Fred Hutchinson a

The Washington state Department of Ecology plans to revise its rules governing what are called injection wells, including about 10,000 of themmostly storm-water dry wellsin the Spokane metropolitan area.The rule changes still are in the so