The Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation wants to buy the Riverpoint One office building just east of downtown Spokane, and has asked the Washington state Housing Finance Commission to issue $8.8 million in bonds to finance the purchase.If a

Spokane-area hospitals are bracing for another upsurge in the cyclical shortage of nursesonly this cycle is expected to be more significant and longer-lasting than those experienced in the past.This (shortage) isnt going to go awayat not

Tidymans LLC, the Spokane-based supermarket chain, has bought the Helena County Market grocery store in Helena, Mont., bringing to 22 the number of stores it now operates.Patty Kilcup, a Tidymans spokeswoman, says the chain decided to buy it

Lyle Anderson, executive director of the Spokane Intercollegiate Research & Technology Institute, has announced to SIRTIs board that he intends to resign this summer.Andersons contract expires at the end of next month, but at the request of

Spokane Teachers Credit Union, Spokanes biggest credit union, plans in August to open a branch in the skywalk level of the Crescent Court downtown.Teachers is the first credit union to open such a highly visible branch in the downtown core, at

The Washington state Department of Transportation is expected to begin design and engineering work this summer and to start construction early next year on a new freeway on-ramp that would carry vehicles headed northbound on Division Street from of

Martha Cummings is a mother, at heart and practiceand also by occupation.The fair-haired, rosy-cheeked grandmother of 10soon to be 11has spent the last 17 years nurturing her venerable downtown Spokane specialty store through its ups and a

The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has awarded a $10.2 million contract to Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, to build a second KC-135 hydrant-based aircraft-fueling system at Fairchild Air Force Base and to expand the bases current fueling began

The company that owns Dishman Dodge here plans to build an estimated $2 million new showroom and sales facility at the southeast corner of Sprague Avenue and Park Road, and to remodel and expand its current new-car sales area for other Hollenback,

Agilent Technologies, which owns Hewlett-Packard Co.s former operations here, is looking to hire more than 100 people in Spokane immediately.Liz Cox, an Agilent spokeswoman here, says the bulk of the new hires are needed to fill entry-level in