The city of Spokane has won a $200,000 grant from the Washington state Department of Ecology to plan the cleanup of a 28-acre parcel it owns near the University District.The city's water department administrative offices are located on the site,

T. LaRiviere Equipment & Excavation Inc., of Athol, Idaho, has won a $2.5 million Spokane County contract to install sewer line in Spokane Valley that eventually will serve about 250 homes there.The project will include excavating the roadways a

Spokane and Post Falls contractors are the low bidders for two separate Washington state Department of Transportation projects worth a combined about $2.6 million and involving U.S. 195 south of Pullman, Wash., and U.S. 395 north of Spokane. Poe

Nu-Ray Metal Products Inc., based in Auburn, Wash., has expanded its operations to Airway Heights, and hopes to employ eight to 10 people there by year's end. Mike Bankers, who owns the business with his father, Tim Bankers, says the company a a

Community Frameworks, a regional nonprofit with offices in Spokane and Bremerton, Wash., has been awarded a $5.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to help provide 290 low-income living units in Idaho, a

The owner of several Little Caesars pizza stores here says he will open a Little Caesars at the former location of a Papa John's pizza store on Spokane's South Hill and hopes to open as many as three more Spokane-area locations over the next year.

Avista Corp. is expanding its call center space and, once a remodeling project there is completed, will occupy all of a building in Spokane Valley that it previously shared with a Horizon Credit Union branch.Avista bought the building, located a

A family partnership that includes the codeveloper of Northtown Square and the owners of the Downriver Grill is working on a scaled-back version of their original plan for a restaurant and retail center on Northwest Boulevard, near Audubon Park, in

Sandpoint-based specialty women's retailer Coldwater Creek Inc. says it plans to refocus its efforts this year to emphasize direct sales of higher-end women's clothing while also opening twice as many retail stores as it did in its last fiscal says