Scott Quinnett says his love affair with Volkswagen Vanagons began serendipitously when trouble he was getting into with faster, more powerful vehicles forced him to give them up for something at the other end of the performance spectrum.The a a

KSPS-TV, the noncommercial educational station here owned and operated by Spokane Public Schools, has laid off employees, curbed programming expenditures, and dipped into reserve funds over the last 12 months to try to counter dwindling financial a

Due heavily to falling advertising revenues, the Spokane-area news media industry and related industry subsectors have shed 500 jobs since peaking in 2006, with the most precipitous decline occurring over the last 12 months, figures show. Some of

Retirement facility administrators here say the real estate market malaise and economic slump that have taken a heavy toll on most other market sectors also have crimped their sales of living units and in some cases have caused apartment rentals to

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital was expected to decide by a deadline late this week whether to appeal the Washington state Department of Health's recent denial of its certificate of need application for 152 more a of