To fund design work for a proposed new $146 million Spokane Veterans Home, the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs has requested additional funding from the state Legislature as part of its 2026 supplemental budget.

The planned three-story, 280,000-square-foot field house addition to Liberty Launch Academy, a nonprofit private school serving preschool to 12th-grade students in Liberty Lake, is awaiting final building permit approval from the city of Liberty Lake before crews can break ground.

Eastern Washington University’s $110 million Science Building renovation is nearing completion and is scheduled to open to students and faculty by this fall.

Two separate industrial warehouse projects with a combined valuation of nearly $15 million are proposed or under construction in Spokane County.

Spokane-based nonprofit Inland Northwest Land Conservancy has secured a conservation easement along the foothills of Mica Peak in North Idaho that add 300 acres of natural area, known as Quail Haven, to the more than 30,000 acres of land the organization currently protects.

A regional airline is introducing a new weekday commercial air service allowing businesspeople and other commuters to travel between between Felts Field, in Spokane, and Boeing Field, in Seattle in just 2 1/2 hours.

Eastern Washington University is preparing to replace a long-dormant residence hall on its Cheney campus with a new, larger student housing facility at 106 N. Ninth.

Dallas-based Sunflower Bank N.A. has consolidated two Spokane branches into one new licensed depository branch and is expanding into North Idaho with the opening of a new loan production office in Coeur d’Alene to meet high demand in the Inland Northwest region.  

RV self-storage company SH Storage LLC, of Airway Heights, is planning to expand its capacity with the development of two new buildings featuring 28 new RV storage units this spring.