The city of Spokane is considering the idea of contracting out its parking-meter enforcement dutiesa move that outgoing Mayor John Powers says could save the city hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.Meanwhile, the proposed 2004 city that

The city of Spokane is taking baby steps to expand its borders, two years after it targeted for annexation big chunks of land in nearly every direction, only to be thwarted by an adverse court decision and the incorporation of Spokane Valley.On

The first phase of Sacred Heart Medical Centers planned $39.4 million Childrens Hospital opened its doors late last month in 70,000 square feet of new space atop the medical centers east tower.The brightly painted walls, carefully patient

The Spokane-area economy appears to be strengthening again, according to the most recent Spokane Leading Economic Index compiled by Washington State University professor Don Epley.Meanwhile, in a second index compiled by Epley, the purchasing a

W. Berry Fowler, the Spokane entrepreneur who founded such franchising powerhouses as Sylvan Learning Centers and Little Gym International Inc., has sold his most recent franchising venture, national tutoring provider KnowledgePoints.Earlier it

These days, the Spokane nonprofit known as Intec seldom uses the full name its acronym represents. Inland Northwest Technology Education Center just doesnt seem to describe the organization as well anymore, says its new CEO, Lewis three years ago

A company doesnt get to be 119 years old without being able to change with the times. Spokane-based Coeur dAlenes Co. certainly has done that.Launched in 1884 as a supply house to miners in Idahos Silver Valley, the longtime steel and for

When the telecom industry rebounds, will Telect Inc.which before the industrys collapse was hiring so feverishly that it couldnt find enough workers here to meet soaring production needsresume its role as an employment juggernaut?Not so

While the Inland Northwest economy limped its way through 2002, the regions top-level executives generally saw the kind of pay raises thatll put a spring in your step.Executives of publicly traded companies in Spokane and North Idaho, on 17

Just how bad is Spokane Countys unemployment rate? We know the number and understand how it was calculated, but do we really understand what it means? Eastern Washington University professor David Bunting doesnt think so.Thats why EWUs