Financially troubled Empire Health Services has taken another step to streamline its operations by hiring a Spokane real estate company to manage its extensive medical office space holdings.The big Spokane hospital operator, which owns and in &

A man who didnt like driving a propane truck in Spokane snow has found a new career and a way to stay out of the cold by inventing an aesthetically pleasing cover for the large white propane tanks found outside homes and businesses.It was a a

If development activity is any indicator, Interstate 90 is becoming the new Sprague Avenue in the Spokane Valley.The I-90 corridor from about Pines Road east to Liberty Lake has seen a host of construction projects in the past year, and several

A Spokane-based company that turns what otherwise might be bad debt or charity care at hospitals into much-needed revenue moved here last year from Seattle partly because of its close relationship with Spokanes two largest hospitals.The Inc.,

Mid-sized sedans, the proverbial family car, havent lost their allure amid the consumer rush to SUVs and light trucks, and they still offer a broad range of selection from affordably basic to impressionably ritzy.Four of the 10 top-selling in

Spokane-based Sterling Savings Bank says it plans to open next week its first full-service bank branch in the Boise market and will consider opening additional branches there.The new branch, Sterlings 12th in Idaho, will be located in about a

Rolatape Corp., a longtime Spokane Valley maker of wheeled measuring devices, has been sold to Stanley Works, the New Britain, Conn.-based tool giant, and its operations here are expected to close by the end of the year.Rolatape, which was in a

A nonprofit groups planned renovation of the 74-year-old Fox Theater in downtown Spokane would preserve one of the remaining examples of the work of Anthony Heinsberger, a prominent early 20th Century architect who designed the interiors of the a

Fairchild Air Force Base is one of two leading sites under consideration to become the temporary base for up to 500 additional military personnel and a number of aircraft when major reconstruction work begins in May on the main runway at Grand Air

A Spokane real estate broker and his family plan to start work this year on a proposed 128-lot residential subdivision six miles north of Spokane near U.S. 395.The 42-acre development site is located along the east side of Hatch Road, about a a