The Spokane Public Facilities District will ask the state Legislature again next year for part of the estimated $41 million needed to finance a proposed sports field house, called the Sportsplex, north of the Spokane River, PFD chairman Larry Soehren says

Jensen Byrd Development LLC, the group that wants to redevelop the Jensen-Byrd building and surrounding properties, has launched a website that includes new details about the developer's vision. The jensenbyrd.com website describes the planned $45 mill

Outperformed. That is the word that melted away the nerves gripping Travis Franklin, head of school at Spokane International Academy, as he, the teachers, staff, and students at one of Spokane's two new charter schools nervously awaited their Cambridg

Modern Theater is in the early stages of planning a new, $12 million theater building at the northwest corner of Fourth Street and Roosevelt Avenue, in Coeur d'Alene's Midtown neighborhood. George Green, executive artistic director for Modern Theater

Despite the beginning of mosquito season and rising national concerns over cases of the Zika virus, officials at the Spokane Regional Health District say there is little to no risk of an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease occurring here. The Zika vi

A rare birth defect called anencephaly has increased dramatically among infants born in three Eastern Washington counties this decade. Since 2010, the rates of anencephaly in Benton, Franklin and Yakima counties have been significantly higher than both t

Future nursing education should involve more learning in teams with cross-discipline health care students, working together in patient scenarios and using technology, says the new Spokane-based dean of the Washington State University College of Nursing.