The value of building permits issued countywide in 2012 rose to a four-year high, records for Spokane County and the cities of Spokane and Spokane Valley show.The permit valuations for the last year in the three jurisdictions totaled $682.1 up a
Former Washington state senator and new Washington State University Spokane chancellor Lisa Brown says she intends to continue pushing the campus forward on its current trajectory: carving out a biomedical campus that can stimulate the downtown of
Spokane hotelier and developer Walt Worthy says a formal development agreement that would clear the way for work to start on a $50 million convention center headquarters hotel downtown is progressing slower than he had envisioned, as the Spokane is
As microbreweries grab a bigger market share from major U.S. beer manufacturers, nearly a dozen Inland Northwest craft brewers have hopped into the beverage business, mainly in the past year. "Seattle and Portland have very well-developed craft
The Spokane Sports Commission is proposing development of a $20 million-plus, multiuse field house here that it believes would help the Spokane area attract major sporting events and alleviate local demand for additional sporting venues.Two are
Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. confirmed today that it has submitted a binding proposal to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Orko Silver Corp., of Vancouver, British Columbia.The transaction is valued at about $384 million is a
Itron Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of automated utility-meter reading technology, reported this afternoon fourth quarter 2012 net income of $16.0 million, or 40 cents a diluted share, up substantially from a net loss of $54.6 million, or a in
Spokane Teachers Credit Union, of Liberty Lake, announced this morning plans to open a new branch on the ground level of the Hutton Building, a downtown structure located at 9 S. Washington that STCU obtained through foreclosure last year. STCU to
Ambassadors Group Inc., the Spokane-based educational-travel program provider, reported this afternoon a fourth-quarter net loss of $10 million, or 58 cents per diluted share, compared with a loss of $7.8 million, or 45 cents a share, in the all of
Providence Medical Group of Eastern Washington announced this morning that it has acquired the two anesthesia groups that work at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital and at Providence Holy Family Hospital.The acquired are