Since a Ross Dress for Less outlet opened last fall in the Manito Shopping Center on Spokane's South Hill, along with separate improvements completed by another of the center's tenants, several surrounding businesses have experienced a notable in a

Across the street from Magner Sanborn Inc.'s downtown offices and visible through windows in its fourth-floor conference room is a simple wall painted red featuring one word in contrasting white: think. Dennis Magner, the Spokane-based agency's

Several Spokane-area employers have put in place company wellness-incentive programs that are intended to encourage or reward employees who maintain good health or who are working to establish an active lifestyle.The thought, those employers is

MacKay Manufacturing Inc., the Spokane Valley-based fabricator of components used in the medical, aerospace, and semiconductor industries, has acquired a parcel next to its headquarters and plans to construct a 22,000-square-foot addition Vice says

It all started with a friend's baby shower.Timmie Coon and Chris Hjelm, a mother-daughter team who own a Spokane Valley business called The Basket Cases, hosted that baby shower in early 2008 and purchased what they considered to be a rather for

Spokane County's planning department is in the process of updating the county's urban growth area boundaries, which determine higher-density residential zones as well as commercial- and industrial-zoned parcels of land around cities. The current

At the order of the Washington state Department of Ecology, Kaiser Aluminum Corp. recently completed a draft document outlining options to remove contaminants found in the soil and groundwater at its Trentwood aluminum rolling mill in Spokane of at

Since entering the finance sector more than three decades ago, Spokane-based financial adviser Donald Morgan says he's seen a lot of change in the area of wealth management. That change, he says, has been influenced by factors that include and a