The owner of Schweitzer Mountain Resort envisions about $85 million worth of enhancements at the North Idaho ski resort over the next decade, executives there say.

Seattle-based Grand Coulee Building LLC has purchased the 43,900-square-foot retail and residential Grand Coulee Building, at 106 S. Cedar, as an investment. The building has 49 residential units and seven retail spaces.

A three-person panel of arbitrators has ruled that a long-time Spokane investment company and its owner didn't breach its fiduciary duties, nor did it commit fraud, as claimed by a Spokane businessman who had invested in the company.

Kootenai County has experienced an influx of retirees moving into the region over the last decade, and builders have struggled to keep up with the demand for housing, some observers say.

Keith Fauerso, executive director of the Cheney Care Community senior living home, says quarantine measures implemented due the coronavirus pandemic only have furthered the isolation experienced among those who are the most susceptible to the virus.

Nearly $440 million in commercial and residential construction projects is estimated to be on hold in the Spokane region during Gov. Jay Inslee's 'Stay Home, Stay Healthy” mandate that has deemed private residential and commercial construction

Spokane-area contractors are scrambling to comply with recent updates to Gov. Jay Inslee's 'stay home, stay healthy” order that has deemed commercial and residential construction as nonessential.

Spokane Treatment and Recovery Services expects to erect a 64-bed, 42,000-square-foot integrated behavioral health treatment facility and medical clinic on East Nora Avenue, in Spokane Valley, by the middle of next year.

One Lakeside, the long planned mixed-use high-rise structure with views of Lake Coeur d'Alene, is nearly complete. The 15-story, $20 million building is being constructed at the northwest corner of First Street and Lakeside Avenue, near the west edge