Less than four years ago, the big push to employ adults with disabilities was to gather them together in facilities previously called sheltered workshops, teach them some marketable skills, then attempt to find employment for them.Thats in at

Washington State University at Spokane says its stepping up efforts to commercialize research being done here by creating a new position to oversee its intellectual property-related activities in the Spokane area.WSU has hired Terri L. a who

On Halloween Day 2001, Spokanes Logan Olson suffered a heart attack, then fell into a three-week-long coma that left her with brain damage and having to relearn the most basic skillsbreathing, swallowing, chewing, holding her head was just 16 a

The city of Spokane says it likely will sell or lease out part of the roughly 63-acre former Playfair Race Course property in East Spokane to provide additional revenue for the city.The city has set aside part of that property to expand its but

Thanks to improved conditions for agriculture in the Pacific Northwest, Northwest Farm Credit Services posted much higher earnings of $30.8 million in the third quarter, up 48 percent from $20.8 million in the year-earlier period.Through the to

Taxable retail sales across the state of Washington shot up 10.5 percent in the second quarter, the largest quarterly increase in 16 years, and increased by similar amounts in both Spokane County and the city of Spokane.Taxable sales reported a

Spokane architect and developer Glen Cloninger says he and partner Dave Mark plan to construct four more buildings in the Grapetree Village mixed-use site on Spokanes South Hill within the next several years.The 10-acre, mostly still property

Cheney native and former professional football player Steve Emtman says site work is expected to start next spring on the first phase of what could become a 255-acre mixed-use development there with 1,300 housing units.The first phase of the to

Two large projectsa 214-lot residential subdivision and a $12 million biodiesel production plantare planned in or next to the small town of Spangle, on the east side of U.S. 195 about 15 miles south of Spokane.The projects, if approved, the

Triumph Composite Systems Inc., of Spokane, says it has won a contract from Boeing Co. worth an estimated $49 million, and plans to hire nearly 60 employees here as a result of that work and several other new contracts its lining up.The with