Kent and Cal Clausen, two brothers here who have been developing hotels since the early 1990s, plan to open a hotel in Coeur dAlene soon, as well as three other new lodging facilities in Western Washington, Montana, and Nevada, all within the two

A planned $8.4 million complex is one of two low-income housing projects to which Spokane Countys housing and community development department recently awarded a total of nearly $1 million in federal funds.The county awarded $200,000 to this

Mead School District has awarded a roughly $12.8 million contract to Spokane-based Northwestern Construction of Washington Inc. to build a new elementary school on the Five Mile Prairie.The 59,000-square-foot school, which will have a partial a

The Spokane-area economy has added more jobs in the first five months of 2006 than it did during the year-earlier period, when it also turned in a strong performance.An average of 6,240 more people were employed in nonagricultural wage and here

After two years of unprecedented increases in the dollar volume of construction and five years of growth in the number of homes sold in the Spokane area, both numbers are declining so far here in 2006. Industry sources point out, however, that

The owners of Sun Dance Golf Course, located northwest of Spokane, have negotiated a sale of the course to Spokane couple Ron and Jill McIntire.The McIntires plan to keep Sun Dance, located at 9725 N. Nine Mile Road, open, and hope to convert a

Mines Management Inc., a small Spokane-based mining company, has registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to sell up to $65 million in securities to raise money primarily to use in pursuing its proposed Montanore project in calls

In a letter penned earlier this year, Sterling Financial Corp. executives told shareholders that its Sterling Savings Bank had become the leading community bank in the Pacific Northwest.What it really would like to do is drop Pacific and is

Going once, going twice, sold! Bidders wont hear Tom Reinland utter that familiar phrase, even though the Reinland family has been holding auctions here since the mid 1960s.Thats because Reinland, despite his ability to rattle off of at a

The Spokane City Council has approved annexation of 496 acres of land near the northwest corner of the city.The property, which already was partly bordered by the city, is mostly west of Albi Stadium and is east and north of the Spokane River.