The city of Spokane has launched a business registration amnesty program through which unregistered businesses that are located in the city or do business here can come into compliance without any penalties for delinquencies. Margaret Redd, taxes and li

The Spokane County Assessor's Office is running behind schedule in 2017 property tax assessments for the 2018 tax year. Due to a shortage of appraisers, the Assessor's Office won't complete 2017 valuations in time to send notices to property owners

The executive director for the nonprofit Inland Northwest Golf Foundation, the parent to The First Tee of the Inland Northwest chapter here, says the organization has withdrawn a predevelopment application before the city of Spokane for a 6-acre, three-ho

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 County said this morning that Commissioner Shelly O'Quinn has accepted the position of CEO for the Inland Northwest Community Foundation and will leave the board of commissioners in June. Per state law, three candidates to replace O'Quinn w

The city of Spokane hasn't decided yet whether to give neighborhood residents and business owners a chance to test lane reductions that would result as part of a controversial planned North Monroe Corridor improvement project. Marlene Feist, city of S