Work on the Palouse wind farm, a two-year project to construct turbines meant to generate electricity for Spokane-based Avista Corp., is now complete, an addition that the energy company says will pad its growing renewable energy portfolio.The a

Health-plan costs for Spokane-area businesses are rising yet again this year, at rates that range from about 5 percent up to double-digit percentage increases, with variations mainly depending on employee numbers and plan design.Area employers a

Quietly operating for a year and a half as a statewide technology-related economic development agency, Innovate Washington expects to make more noise in the coming year. As it does so, Innovate Washington CEO Kim Zentz says, the organization's a

After several years of steeply rising mortgage defaults in Spokane County, foreclosures on deeds of trust plummeted to a four-year low in 2012, while foreclosure numbers in Kootenai County were tracking downward as well in the latest available the