The recently enacted federal health-care reform legislation that aims to increase coverage of uninsured Americans likely means that many more family practitioners will be needed here to care for the newly insured, some observers here say.The is

Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners, a nonprofit human services agency here, says its housing counseling programsaved the owners of 97 homes in Spokane County from foreclosure last year, and it's working with a growing number of clients this year

New mortgage lending rules that require loan originators to disclose key loan terms and closing costs offer needed consumer protection, but also have slowed down the loan-approval process, some lenders here say.The rules that went into effect a

Seattle-based mechanical and energy-efficiency contractor McKinstry Co. has bought the former Great Northern building just west of Hamilton Street on the north bank of the Spokane River and plans to invest $10 million in improvements there, says to

Several construction projects with a combined value exceeding $130 million are in various stages of planning in the University District east of downtown, and schedules for them are expected to overlap during the next two or three years.The first