Four Spokane-area colleges are studying the possibility of developing jointly an institute that would collect and analyze economic data for the Spokane area and use that data to provide research for and to advise leaders on public policy committee

Target Stores Inc., the big Minneapolis-based discount retail chain, plans to begin renovating its store in the Northpointe Shopping Center on Spokanes North Side in mid-January.The remodeling work will involve reconfiguring the interior space

Work has begun to rebuild the east end of a strip retail center at Heritage Village, a shopping center near the Division Street Y in North Spokane.The shopping centers owner, Heritage Village Partnership, also plans within the next two to

After a somewhat tumultuous start here, the Spokane operation of Paris-based Alcatel S.A. has secured its role within that multi-billion-dollar company and apparently, for some time to come, its future in Spokane.When Alcatel acquired Packet in

Northwest TeleHealth, a Spokane-based telemedicine network, will receive a $2.7 million grant from Qwest Communications International Inc. to expand the network further throughout Eastern Washington.Telemedicine enables doctors in one community

At the base of Green Mountain, tucked among pine trees between Hauser and Newman lakes northeast of Spokane, lies Green Mountain Inc.s bottling plant.At that about 1,100-square-foot plant, which is located on the homestead of the couple that a

Expansion plans announced three years ago are proceeding at the Chimney Rock Industrial Park, which is located near the intersection of Freya and Trent.Two buildings, one which will include about 28,300 square feet of floor space and another of

Empire Health Services, which owns and operates Deaconess Medical Center and Valley Hospital & Medical Center, has contracted with Cancer Care Northwest PS, a physician-owned enterprise here, to provide radiation-oncology services in Zellers, chief

A new Washington state regional archives building, which had been planned at the Riverpoint Higher Education Park just east of downtown Spokane, now likely will be built at Eastern Washington Universitys Cheney campus on about five acres near the

Spokane Countys Utilities Division is studying options to meet the countys wastewater-treatment needs through the year 2020options that include building at least one major new treatment plant here, at a potential cost of as much as $110 or up