A Spokane licensee of Dollar Rent A Car has received regulatory approval to open a car-rental lot on the downtown site currently occupied by the longtime Thadeus T. Thudpuckers restaurant, city planning department documents show. Whether the a

An investor group that hopes to develop a $30 million raceway park here is looking at sites for the project in the Coeur dAlene-Post Falls area and on the West Plains after having ruled out an East Spokane site it considered initially.Doug one

The number of home-mortgage foreclosures filed in Spokane County this year is well ahead of last years pace and is on course to top 1,000 for the second straight yearfor just the second time since the county started tracking defaults in after a

Lynn Bartholomew deals routinely with the kind of pressures most of us can only imagine. And while the resulting stress isnt likely to lead anyone into early retirement, it does pack enough of a wallop to fracture hundreds of feet of granite as a

When a group backed by prominent Spokane businesspeople took over the Mount Spokane Ski Area four years ago, its goal was to make the ski hill more inviting to kids here so more of them would learn how to ski.The group, Mount Spokane 2000, has a

Biomedex Inc., the upstart Spokane biotech company that will be among the first tenants in a new technology park on the West Plains, says it plans to take to market soon a new product that it envisions will sweep the country, fueled by consumer by

Fixing traffic congestion on U.S. 95 in Coeur dAlene will cost anywhere from $125 million to $350 million, and proposed solutions range from simply expanding the road, to turning it into an elevated expressway, to relocating the highway a couple

Ameracare Inc., the Spokane company that developed and operates Evergreen Valley Retirement Center, allegedly is in default on two loans, and property on Evergreen where the retirement facility is located is slated to be sold in a trustees sale a

Chapter Eleven Inc., of Spokane, has closed the doors of its last restaurant here at the northeast corner of Ruby Street and Mission Avenue.Vern Byrd, of Byrd Real Estate Group LLC, who is the listing agent for the restaurant business, says the

A proposed 72-bed, drug-and-alcohol-recovery facility to be located at 3422 W. Garland in North Spokane is among several projects being recommended for tax-exempt bond financing by the staff of the state Housing Finance Commission.The projects a