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SCC launches one-year transfer degree program

Fast-track program will be fully online

November 17, 2022

Spokane Community College is launching a one-year transfer degree which will allow students to complete a conventional two-year associate of arts degree in half of the time.

Big water tank to be built on hill at Liberty Lake

Project set to go to bid soon; construction start expected next spring

November 17, 2022

Karina Elias

The Spokane Valley-based water utility company Consolidated Irrigation District No. 19, in Liberty Lake, has requested a permit to build a 2-million-gallon drinking-water storage tank valued at $3.9 million in Liberty Lake.

Stormwater improvement planned on West Plains

Corridor Contractors selected by county to construct first phase

November 17, 2022

Erica Bullock

Airway Heights-based Corridor Contractors LLC has been selected as the contractor for the first phase of construction in the West Terrace Capital Improvement Project, which will address the chronic stormwater management issues on the West Plains.

Portland group eyes project at former Quality Inn

Remodel involves 153 rental units on south side of I-90

November 17, 2022

Virginia Thomas

An Oregon-based company redeveloping a former Days Inn hotel into apartments in downtown Spokane plans a similar redevelopment project on the other side of Interstate 90.

Construction proposed at children's center here

Two projects will support early education programs

November 17, 2022

Erica Bullock

Two separate construction projects involving Spokane-area learning centers are in the permitting stages. The total value of the projects, one of which is in the Hillyard neighborhood and the other on the South Hill, are valued at a total of $2.8 million.

Copeland Architecture grows construction division

Design-build company buys, remodels new offices near downtown

November 17, 2022

Karina Elias

Austin Dickey and Jeff Fountain, architects and owners of the design-build company, Copeland Architecture & Construction Inc., have been steadily rebuilding the company's construction division over the last few years back to the size

Historic downtown building remodel underway

Long-vacant hotel to be converted into rentals

November 17, 2022

Virginia Thomas

The second and third floors of a 130-year-old, former hotel in downtown Spokane are being remodeled into apartments.

Whitetail Ridge development springs to life in Valley

Former Itron executive's vision coming to fruition

November 17, 2022

Virginia Thomas

The $83 million-plus Whitetail Ridge residential development, a longtime dream of former Itron executive Johnny Humphreys, is being realized in Spokane Valley.

Guest Commentary: Legislature has constitutional right to call self to session

Gem State voters approve â€¦

November 17, 2022

Chris Cargill

It wasn't overwhelming approval, but voters in Idaho have given a thumbs up to a constitutional amendment that will allow the state Legislature the authority to call itself into special or extraordinary session. Senate Joint Resolution 102 passed with

The Journal's View: Food-delivery fees shouldn't be set by local government

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November 17, 2022

Staff Report

Government shouldn't interfere with free-market contracts between private enterprises. With that principle in mind, an idea floated by a couple of Spokane City Council members to cap third-party food-delivery fees shouldn't move forward.