Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched work on a big retail store at Shadle Center, the first of two megastores that the Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant plans on Spokanes North Side.CSI Construction Inc., a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based has to

Washington state Department of Transportation officials say theyve told the city of Spokane and Washington State University at Spokane that the department must start design work this spring on either a new Trent Avenue bridge west of Hamilton or

A new Hayden Lake, Idaho, company called Guardian Angel Homes LLC has begun construction of a $6 million assisted-living complex in Post Falls.The project involves building four 10,000-square-foot structures at 1050 E. Mullan Ave. that will be a

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. has begun offering to sell land it owns next to its busy rail line that runs through downtown Spokane, drawing a mix of cheers and jeers from owners of businesses that lease the land.Some expect the anticipated

A small convoy of new distribution operations have been arriving in the Spokane area, prompting the Spokane Business & Industrial Park to build more warehouse space here and showing economic-development officials that theres still plenty of tread

A group of investors that includes Spokane architect Glen A. Cloninger and downtown property owner K. Wendell Reugh is proposing a $50 million high-rise office tower to be built at one of two sites in the city center. The envisioned project is a

Brian and Judy Jorgensen, a Post Falls couple that owns a small North Idaho chain of pharmacies called Medicine Man Pharmacy Inc., plans to develop a $1.5 million retail center at Liberty Lake.The couple has applied for a building permit from to

San Diego-based Leap Wireless International Inc. has acquired a personal communications services (PCS) license from the Federal Communications Commission to offer digital wireless communications service in Spokane and will do so through its Cricket

Safeway Stores Inc., of Pleasanton, Calif., has agreed to lease a proposed supermarket space at a planned $9 million retail center in the Hillyard area of northeast Spokaneand close a nearby store, developer Jim Gallaugher says.Gallaugher, who

A recent surge in the price of gold has renewed Inland Northwest mining companies interest in digging the yellow metal out of the ground.Gold, which had fallen as low as $252.85 per troy ounce on the London gold exchange as recently as Aug. as