The Washington Health Benefit Exchange board of directors last month provided final certification of Qualified Health Plans to be offered through Washington Healthplanfinder during the second open enrollment period.

The city of Davenport has accepted an offer from an affiliate of Davenport contractor Halme Construction Inc. to purchase and develop five city block-sized lots on the west edge of town, about 35 miles east of Spokane via U.S. 2, says Steven Goemmel, Dave

Ground finally has been broken on the long-awaited Deer Park Business & Industrial Center infrastructure improvement project, located at 2800 E. Crawford in Deer Park, about 15 miles north of Spokane.

Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased 7.5 percent in June 2014 compared with June 2013, according to the June CoreLogic Home Price Index report released in early August by CoreLogic, an Irvine, Calif.-based property information, an

About $8 million in federal grants have been awarded to Spokane-area agencies this summer to support housing and self-sufficiency programs for the homeless, more than half of which will go to programs intended to help homeless veterans in particular.

Lincoln View Apartments LLC, formed by brothers Pete and Nick Mounsey, has begun a $2 million rebuild of a lower South Hill apartment building that had been severely damaged by fire.

A Spokane County Superior Court judge applied the wrong standard of care when she decided that board members of a homeowners association in Mead shouldn't be held individually liable for their actions, an appellate court panel here ruled last week. The

T.W. Clark Construction LLC, of Spokane Valley, says it will begin work around Sept. 1 on a $4.1 million remodeling project at the Yakima County Resource Center, in Union Gap, Wash., near Yakima. The remodel of the building, located at 2403 S. 18th in Un