Avista Utilities will begin work shortly on a $4 million project that will replace the spill gates in its diversion dam on the main channel of the Spokane River directly west of the Division Street bridge.The dam, which is in Riverfront Park, a

A Spokane development company is moving forward with the first phase of its planned 170-lot River Run subdivision along the Spokane River in northwest Spokane.The company, Fort Wright LLC, has received approval from the city of Spokane to the a

A young Seattle-based furniture retailer has agreed to buy a former Heilig-Meyers Co. building in Spokane Valley and plans to open its first Spokane-area store there later this month.The company, which does business as Furniture Supercenter and

Kootenai Medical Center plans to start work on a $4.7 million parking garage next month as part of a major parking expansion designed to alleviate overcrowding at its Coeur dAlene campus.In addition, a surface parking lot expansion already is

Iron Bridge LLC, of Spokane, plans to start work late this fall on a $7 million office building at its Iron Bridge Corporate Campus, along the Spokane River east of the citys University District.The two-story, 60,000-square-foot structure is

Cora Glass divorce might well have been a blessing in disguise. After her split, the Spokane administrative assistant decided to try something new in life.That something new ended up being the launch of an eclectic downtown business venture a

Ag lenders here say demand for loans is strong as improved farm markets and low interest rates are leading growers to buy more land and equipment.Loan volumes at Spokane-based Northwest Farm Credit Services grew a healthy 10 percent last year,

One of every nine people in Spokane County is without health insurance, and Spokane-area medical providers dont get paid for almost $20 million in care they provide annually, says a new report by the Washington state Insurance 37,200 uninsured in

After closing four supermarkets in recent months, Tidymans LLC plans to build three stores in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene market in the next three years while remodeling six or seven others. The plan is part of a multistep rebuilding process that

The high-tech surgery suites are already in use, birthing beds are being installed in the motel-room-like birthing rooms, and final touches are under way in the new, 47-bed neonatal intensive care unit.Sacred Heart Medical Centers $100 west a