At least three sizable apartment complexes with a total value of $42 million are in the construction pipeline in the Spokane area and several sources say they expect to see more apartment projects proposed and under construction here in the coming year.

A chance visit to the Inland Northwest in the early 1970s led Jonathan Lee to move to Spokane and to transfer his law studies to Gonzaga University. Lee, now 67 years old, never left. He's worked in probate, family, and general law here since 1976, now

An assistant public defender with the city of Spokane and a Gonzaga University School of Law professor are striving to educate refugees and immigrants about the American legal system, something many of them have distrust for because of corruption and pers

Collaborative law, an emerging area of law practice here, allows opposing sides in certain civil cases to join the same team to cooperate in resolving disputes. Instead of working as adversaries, participants in collaborative-law cases commit to work tog

Nonprofit Inland Northwest Lighthouse, which operates a manufacturing facility in North Spokane where it employs nearly 50 people, soon will start using a major expansion of its building there that it says will enable it to expand its workforce. Baker

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Inland Northwest is moving forward with several large projects this year, including a $2.5 million, 26,000-square-foot second-phase expansion of its Pasco, Wash., warehouse facility, says President and CEO Jason Luke Clark.