The city of Deer Park has begun a $7.5 million project to replace the plastic liners in its three effluent storage lagoons, which together can hold up to 135 million gallons of wastewater.

A Washington state appellate court panel here has reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that Spokane County commissioners improperly authorized the construction of a road through dedicated parkland in the Wandermere area north of Spokane to serve a

Colbert-based Kilgore Construction Inc. has started construction on a $1 million, nearly 8,000-square-foot building at 9412 N. Newport Highway that's planned to be used for retail space.

Spokane electrical contractor Pick Electric Inc. has been selected for a $6.5 million equipment replacement and upgrade at the Libby Dam, located 17 miles upstream from Libby, Mont., on the Kootenai River.

Intermountain West Insulation & Garage Doors recently moved its Spokane Valley branch into a new building in which it has incorporated many of the energy-saving insulation products that it sells and installs for commercial and residential customers.

Kootenai County has leased a stand-alone building in northwest Coeur d'Alene, where it plans to move its public defender's office, giving it larger space and better security, says Dan Green, Kootenai County commissioner.

Havana Properties LLC, a recently formed affiliate of Spokane-based Fast Way Freight Systems Inc., has bought the Broadway Terminal industrial park where Fast Way has been leasing space for more than two decades, says Mark Willard, Fast Way chief financia