Latest News

Businesses here find niche in providing energy audits

Green job opportunities could increase through proposed auditor training
Jeanne Gustafson
Increasing demand by home owners and businesses to make their buildings more energy efficient is spawning a growing niche for what's called energy auditing. Meanwhile, programs to train individuals to perform such audits are being funded here with
Read More

Group here plans host of eco-focused events in September

Month-long observance includes tours, plantings, street fair, workshops
Kim Frlan
Community-Minded Enterprises, a Spokane nonprofit, along with other organizations, businesses, and government agencies, is staging a month-long series of events designed to build awareness of green issues.The about 75-event schedule, dubbed such
Read More

State awaits big stream of energy dollars

Stimulus money expected to help weatherize homes, upgrade public buildings
Deirdre Gregg
After months of planning by state and local agencies, about $150 million in federal stimulus money for energy efficiency is starting to flow into Washington state.The money should help weatherize thousands of homes, upgrade public buildings, of
Read More
—Staff photo by Mike McLean

Conservation tax credits, rebates boost businesses

Incentives sway many to buy better windows, beef up insulation
Mike McLean
Rebates and tax credits for home improvements that conserve energy have increased sales and installation work for some home-improvement businesses and have helped others stay afloat during the recession, contractors and business owners here McVay,
Read More
—Staff photo by David Cole

Taking steps to 'go green'

More than just saving energy, businesses here are finding ways to be more eco-friendly
David Cole
While it's become common for businesses to seek energy efficiency by upgrading lighting, windows, and air systems, what's less known are the other, often innovative, efforts they're making to "go green." And they say those things aren't just the to
Read More
—Rendering courtesy of Bernardo Wills Architects PC

Bissinger Building project starts - Art only

Gary Bernardo and Bob Wills, majority owners of the Spokane firm Bernardo Wills Architects PC, have launched a renovation and expansion project, illustrated here, at the Bissinger Building, at 153 S. Jefferson, which they bought. Vandervert Inc., a
Read More

Halme submits lowest bid for West Plains water line job

Davenport contractor tabbed for $2.9 million city of Spokane project
Jeanne Gustafson
Halme Construction Inc., of Davenport, is the apparent low bidder, with a bid of $2.9 million, for a city of Spokane contract to complete the second and final phase of a project that will extend a water line that eventually could provide city water
Read More

Study finds link between less sleep, higher blood pressure

Newly released findings stemmed from research on middle-aged adults
Middle-aged adults who sleep fewer hours appear more likely to have high blood pressure and to experience adverse changes in blood pressure over time, says a report that appeared in a spring issue of the journal Archives of Internal one-third of or
Read More

Featured Poll

What is the single biggest barrier to breaking ground on new projects in our region right now?

Popular Articles