A longtime co-owner of White Elephant Surplus Stores has left the well-known family toy and sporting-goods retail business to launch a new store that will sell boats and boating accessories.Ed Conley, who managed White Elephants store in and

Liberty Lake is enjoying a spate of big commercial projects, and theres no letup expected soon in the flow of residential building in the six-year-old city.Doug Smith, director of planning and community development, says building permit this

A new transportation plan for Kootenai County maps out more than 200 road projects through the year 2030 that would have an estimated total cost of $852 million. The plan for the county, where rapid growth is expected to continue into the future, a

Apex Industries Inc., a Spokane Valley specialty sheet-metal fabricator, is expanding its facility at the Spokane Business & Industrial Park so it can boost production.The company has leased an additional 12,000 square feet of space, where it

Spokane County is calling in a heavy hitter in motor-sports consulting to help determine whether its economically feasible for the county to buy Spokane Raceway Park and operate it under public ownership.A consulting contract isnt completed

A new franchisee plans to open a Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership in Coeur dAlene in the spring.The dealership, to be called Lone Wolf Harley-Davidson, will be located at the former site of the Adventures N Fun family-entertainment at

Walla Walla-based Banner Corp., which operates Banner Bank and acquired Spokane Valley-based F&M Bank earlier this year, says its loan and deposit growth from that acquisition and another helped bolster its net income for the third posted earnings

A two-year-old pre-apprenticeship program offered through Spokane Public Schools is helping students enter construction-related tradesand earn living wagesright out of high school.Apprentices are needed to fill an expected shortage of as a

Coeur dAlene Honda has begun work on a $3 million expansion of its dealership complex on Seltice Way just south of Interstate 90 and a mile west of Northwest Boulevard.The project includes constructing a 23,000-square-foot showroom and that a

Spokane County has begun a search for land where it could build a new jail facility to accommodate inmate growth for the next 25 years and the expected loss of its Geiger Corrections Center in 2013. County officials plan to put a potential measure