Homeowners' associations are adept at tackling problems like cracked swimming pools or unkempt lawns. But given that America's 65-and-older population is projected to grow by more than 70 percent in the next 13 years, boards will be forced to a new

The University of Iowa College of Law has begun offering a fiction writing class aimed at helping law students produce clearer, more easily understood legal writing."Fiction writing offers good lessons to lawyers about good writing and editing,"

Northwest HVAC/R Association & Training Center, a nonprofit education and training organization, has bought a 7,500-square-foot office building at 204 E. Nora and has moved there from leased space at 811 E. Sprague. Doug Byrd, of Byrd Real Estate &

The city of Spokane has awarded a contract valued at about $1 million to Davenport, Wash.-based Halme Construction Inc. to install a sewer line along a 1 1/2-mile stretch of Upriver Drive in East Spokane.Installation of the new 18-inch sewer to

Architects West Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, recently received a contract to design an extensive addition and remodel for Wapato High School in Wapato, Wash., a south central Washington city 12 miles south of Yakima.The overall project is estimated a

Print company here adds digital printerLithograph Reproductions Inc., of Spokane Valley, has purchased its first digital Xerox color printer, bringing the company's total printer count to four. The 20-foot-by-8 foot printer also doubles as a

The downtown Spokane branch of D.A. Davidson & Co. has moved to the eighth floor from the 10th floor of the Bank of America Financial Center in downtown Spokane. The company has signed a seven-year lease for the approximately 13,000-square-foot