The city of Spokane last week secured the last chunk of the $7 million in federal money it was hoping to get for a planned three-phase extension of Riverside Avenue from Division Street east through the University District. Concerns about a of

The Spokane office of Thomas, Dean & Hoskins Inc., a Great Falls, Mont.-based engineering firm, has been rustling up business across Eastern Washington, and especially in more rural areas. Currently, the firm has 87 projects under way, the most

Spokane-based Fast Way Freight System Inc. has increased its sales every year since Jeff Bosma and a former partner bought the company and renamed it in 1993, but a second company created by Bosma and two others in 2001, called Fast Way Transport a

A limited-liability company owned jointly by four Spokane and North Idaho dental practices is constructing a $4 million professional building in Post Falls in which each of the practices will have space.The company, Post Falls Specialty Dental

Spokane-based Sterling Savings Bank plans to open a full-service branch in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland this spring.When that branch and another planned for construction in Liberty Lake are completed, Sterling will have 62 branches in and 80

A $13.4 million proposal to address storm-water issues in three unincorporated areas of Spokane County is expected to come before the county commissioners soon for consideration.The proposal is included in the countys first Comprehensive a by

Two condominium projects, each with a value of about $25 million and together totaling about 180 living units, have been proposed for Hayden, Idaho, just north of Coeur dAlene.One project, a 58-unit complex to be called Prairie Village, has a

High fuel and utility costs, coupled with a shift in donations to other parts of the nation and world to meet needs caused by natural disasters, have charities here worried about whether theyll have the resources to serve Spokanes people in out

A group of 18 workers with developmental disabilities helped Avista Corp. save $853,000 last year by recycling industrial materials and paper that the Spokane-based utility otherwise would have thrown away.A woman here with Down syndrome is a a

Bob Beal, who owns six convenience-store gas stations here through a company called R&B Systems Inc., is dropping his 30-year affiliation with Chevron brand products and is switching his stations over to the Shell brand. Shell has given us a