And residential real estate agents thought 2002 was a good year.Home sales activity reported in 2003 through the Spokane Multiple Listing Service broke records for a second consecutive year, as activity and average home prices both surged to to

As the sun starts to set on Saturday nights in the summertime, Jim Frank frequently can be found at the city of Liberty Lakes Pavilion Park.People, mostly neighbors of the park, start to spread blankets and set up lawn chairs on the parks a

Spokane County is appealing a Superior Court judges ruling that invalidated two storm-water control ordinances it had adopted in 1999 and 2002 and which had broad development-related implications here.The appeal seeks to overturn Judge Linda

When Kent Williamson and S.D. Meeks launched K.D. Steel Inc. in August 1988, the Spokane company had the humblest of beginnings.We started up with a $200 pickup, and we slept on the job sites for the first couple of years, says Williamson,

A private, nonprofit groups plans for an estimated $30 million science center on the north side of Riverfront Park are beginning to coalesce, says Chris Majer, the groups board chairman.The group, Inland Northwest Science and Technology has

A developer is selling lots in the first phase of a new, 80-acre residential project at Schweitzer Mountain Resort, near Sandpoint.Eleven of the 18 lots included in that phase of the planned development, to be called the Spires at Schweitzer,

In Seattle, all city-funded buildings with more than 5,000 square feet of space have to be built green, meaning they must meet certain standards for energy efficiency and resource conservation. A bill introduced in the Washington Legislature is

A pregnant woman whos treated at Sacred Heart Medical Center currently might have to traverse the length and breadth of the hospitals sprawling South Hill complex to receive all the services she needs. That wont be the case when Sacred

The Inland Northwests exercise industry has discovered that middle-aged, mostly out-of-shape women want to drop something besides extra pounds. That something is men.More and more women are plunking down the $29 to $89 monthly membership fees

Inland Northwest Bank, of Spokane, plans to build a freestanding branch in Post Falls that likely will replace the grocery-store branch the bank has operated there since 1996. Spokane-based Madsen Mitchell Evenson & Conrad PLLC is finishing on