Overall visitor spending in Spokane County declined in 2011 compared with the previous year, preliminary numbers show. Even so, Visit Spokane President and CEO Cheryl Kilday says the organization expected a drop in activity, and the numbers proved

Rocky Mountain Hospitality LLC, a Post Falls-based hotel operator with eight properties in Idaho and Montana, has grown steadily since buying a modest hotel in Coeur d'Alene and moving its base to North Idaho in 2004. At that time, it had two in

Waste Management of Spokane has begun constructing an $18 million recycling facility, on the West Plains. Called the Spokane Materials & Recycling Technology Center, the envisioned 8-acre, 62,000-square-foot facility, at 2902 W. Geiger Blvd., is to