Spokane-based Wheatland Bank has expanded its mortgage division downtown. The home loan division, led by Troy Sims, senior vice president and director of residential lending services, has a team of 15, including six residential lenders and support staff,

True Hope Church, a Spokane-based Assemblies of God church, has bought for $2.6 million the Lincoln Center, at 1316 N. Lincoln, where True Hope has consolidated its South Hill and North Side operations, says Ryan Layton, a commercial real estate broker in

One of the most noteworthy accomplishments of Gonzaga University coach Mark Few in his team's inexorable march toward the NCAA National Championship game, despite falling short in the finale, may have been the destruction of the oft-quoted axiom that

The soon-to-be-constructed University District Gateway Bridge that will connect the Riverpoint Campus to the East Sprague neighborhood and the lower South Hill medical district is exciting in its own right, but the only way it will fulfill its potential i

A recent upgrade to the Spokane Valley Fire Department's fire protection rating likely will mean reduced insurance premiums for property owners in the cities within its coverage area, officials say. Melanie Rose, the department's community affairs o

Spokane Valley-based Atlas Staffing Inc., a staffing and recruiting firm, says it has opened its first Oregon branch office. The company's CEO and founder, Josh McKee, says Atlas has been growing quickly in the years since its 2011 start.