The introduction of daylight passenger rail service connecting Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Seattle is feasible physically and operationally, a Washington state Department of Transportation study has found.However, the minimum $350 million worth...
Full StoryWhen Dave Maxwell left his home in Butte, Mont., to come to Spokane in 1961, it was to manage a branch of M&L Supply Co., a family-owned plumbing and heating supplies distributor that his father, Thomas, had established with a partner in Butte is a...
Full StoryThe Spokane Regional Solid Waste System is considering a $1.25 million upgrade to the Waste to Energy Facility that would enhance its electrical generating efficiency by about a megawatt, or enough electricity to power 500 homes.The Spokane City...
Full StoryA new Spokane winery, Townshend Cellars, is getting ready to release its first wines this fall. Townshend Cellars (pronounced Townsend) is located on the Greenbluff property of its owners, Don and Michelle Townshend. The couple founded the in of...
Full StoryThe Washington State Patrol soon will begin pre-design work on a $10 million crime laboratory to be built on the Cheney campus of Eastern Washington University.In conjunction with that planning, EWU will take steps to institute a degree program...
Full StorySix years ago, Bert McCollum thought shed found her corner. Abandoning the small, beauty salon she had operated from a remodeled residence near University City for 13 years, she bought a lot at the northwest corner of Mission Avenue and Argonne a...
Full StoryAir-cargo volumes handled at Spokane International Airport fell again in May, continuing a downward trend in air freight and airmail shipments there that began last summer. Total inbound and outbound air-cargo shipments in May totaled 4,476 29...
Full StoryTo prevent state Route 41 in Kootenai County from becoming a commercial strip, the city of Post Falls is seeking a consultant to draft a master plan that would govern future development of the highway and adjacent property. Post Falls received a...
Full StoryBusiness leaders here are working to set up a new economic-development campaign to succeed the $5 million, five-year Focus 21 effort, which has entered its final year.JoAnn Ficca, who served for a year as Focus 21s president and now is working...
Full StoryLeft high and dry by a slowdown in the electronics industry, Spokane-area high-tech parts manufacturers have had to chart new courses.Some of the companies have searched extensively elsewhere in the West for new business, a strategy that has off...
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