James Harakas, the man who opened the GeoEngineers Inc. Spokane office 24 years ago, has helped form a young leadership team to carry on the business aspects of the multidiscipline engineering services provider, beyond his now imminent retirement.

Now that funding is committed to erect the long-envisioned $15.4 million University District pedestrian bridge, the next step is to coordinate public and private development to maximize the critical access link, says Mark Mansfield, the new Spokane Univer

Chewelah, Wash.-based 49 Degrees North Ski Area, located about 60 miles north of Spokane, is kicking off a $500 million Sunrise Basin resort community today by putting on the market a mix of 35 single-family and multiunit residential lots near the base of

Airway Heights is the center attraction for commercial growth on the West Plains, some developers, contractors, and city employees say. Projects valued at more than $90 million are planned or under way on the West Plains, many of them within the city of

A U.S. Small Business Administration financing program is helping businesses expand and better position themselves for the economic turnaround, and Ted Schinzel, the SBA's Spokane branch administrator, says more businesses here could benefit from SBA 50