Avista Utilities projects it will need to spend $1.7 billion over the next 20 years to add or improve efficiency of power-generation capacity to meet a projected 1.6 percent annual increase in electric power demand.The vast majority of that - - -

The city of Spokane last month issued Minneapolis-based Target Corp. a building permit for a project to update the interior decor and to expand the grocery department of its retail store at the Northpointe Plaza shopping center, on Spokane's North

Earlier this summer, a Spokane-based nonprofit that provides educational resources on sustainable business and living practices rolled out its new name and brand image of Sustainable Resources INW. The organization formerly had operated under the a

The city of Spokane has awarded a contract valued at about $1 million to Davenport, Wash.-based Halme Construction Inc. to install a sewer line along a 1 1/2-mile stretch of Upriver Drive in East Spokane.Installation of the new 18-inch sewer to

Architects West Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, recently received a contract to design an extensive addition and remodel for Wapato High School in Wapato, Wash., a south central Washington city 12 miles south of Yakima.The overall project is estimated a

Thirty-nine longtime employees at the Spokesman-Review will leave their jobs at the end of this year after accepting an optional early-retirement package offered last month by Cowles Co., says Spokesman-Review Publisher W. Stacey Cowles.That of