While attendance at some of Spokanes longtime festivals, events, and conferences has remained steady or grown only slightly in recent years, some relatively new attractions are drawing ever bigger crowds.Art Fest and Valleyfest are among the

Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS) has applied for a tax-exempt $3.9 million revenue bond to buy a former auto dealership building downtown and to remodel and equip it for its downtown clinic.The nonprofit provider of medical and to

The Spokane campus of Apollo College, having enjoyed enrollment surges in its medical-training programs during its first few years here, is moving to larger quarters.The Phoenix-based college has leased about 15,000 square feet of floor space a

Western Rail Inc., of Spokane, has bought 23 acres of land in Airway Heights on the north side of McFarlane Road just west of Hayford Road and will move its locomotive sales, leasing, and parts business there.The 19-year-old company, which has

YMCA of the Inland Northwest is exploring the possibility of building a new facility on Spokanes North Side that could be similar in size and scope to the $6 million Spokane Valley YMCA that opened in late 1999.Rig Riggins, president and CEO

Convention bookings are down this year from those for 2002, but the Spokane Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau is plotting to narrow the gap before year-end.Still, before the U.S. invaded Iraq last week, visitor activity in the Spokane to

Energized by the addition of ESPN founder Stu Evey as its top executive, a young Spokane company is preparing to launch its digital jukebox as an alternative to the conventional music machines. The company, Songbird Digital Jukebox Inc., so

The Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute has applied for a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerces Economic Development Administration to build a 35,000-square-foot wet-lab facility at the southwest portion of

COEUR DALENELanny Ream says rockhounds are a dying breedliterally. Hunting and collecting rocks and minerals was really a big thing after World War II because thats the first time people had money and time, he says. Our parents or

Another round of U.S. military base closures is loomingone perhaps as big as the previous four rounds combinedand with it Fairchild Air Force Base will become part of a high-stakes poker game.Win, and the base probably would grow, bringing