The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $7.3 million to Spokane-based Community Frameworks for constructing at least 393 low-income housing units in four states.Community Frameworks, a nonprofit that develops and support

Ralph Baker, the former Spokane County assessor, says he's made it his business to help people understand the property tax system, including educating them about filing appeals.Baker says he has founded the American Property Tax Institute LLC, a

Spokane Public Schools says it has picked Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, to handle structural steel and concrete work for the Ferris High School reconstruction and partial renovation project.Garco had submitted a low bid of $7.9 million of

Following brisk sales of its modestly priced homes in Kendall Yards northwest of downtown Spokane, Liberty Lake-based developer Greenstone Corp. plans next to build 10 higher-priced homes, which would include four upscale townhouse units and six of

The Spokane office of the FBI plans to move into the North Coast Life Building on the west edge of downtown, likely by the end of the year.General Services Administration spokeswoman Chelsea Turnbull says the agency has negotiated a lease for of

A former lodge on Spokane's North Side, last operated by the Spokane chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, is being demolished to make way for a two-building retail complex to be anchored by a Double Eagle Pawn Inc. shop, conceptual plans on of