The Spokane County hearing examiner has denied a request by Spokane developers Dennis Swartout and his son, Ben, for a height exemption to allow construction of two 12-story condominium towers on the South Hill.Michael Dempsey, the hearing a

Washington State University has selected Seattle architectural firm NBBJ to design a $45 million medical-sciences building that's to be constructed at the Riverpoint Campus east of downtown. A general contractor and construction manager will be to

Agilent Technologies Inc., the Santa Clara, Calif.-based scientific-instrument maker, says it has decided to move its Liberty Lake operations into leased space and out of a much larger complex that it owns here after having reduced its Spokane-area

AHBL Inc., a Tacoma-based landscape architecture, engineering, and land-surveying firm, has moved its Spokane office to larger quarters and plans to add to its staff, says Len Zickler, an AHBL principal here.Zickler says the company's newly in a

Spokane-based St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute has moved its North Side clinic to larger quarters, added staff, and changed its mission to focus on treating patients with work-related injuries, says Dave Cox, program manager for the Luke's at a

One hospital here has ramped up its trauma center to provide full-time care for patients with moderate to severe injuries, while another has opted out of trauma care altogether. Both hospitals, which formerly accepted such patients on weeks, say

Churchill's Steakhouse, an upscale restaurant downtown that has been closed for more than a year due to fire damage, plans to reopen following an estimated $1 million interior reconstruction project, extensive plans filed with the city of Spokane &