Columbia Basin Federal Credit Union, a Moses Lake, Wash.-based institution with three offices, plans to merge into Horizon Credit Union, of Spokane Valley.Brian Grytdal, Horizons vice president of marketing, says the boards of both credit the

A Spokane company plans to buy a 22.5-acre parcel used as an exotic animal farm in northeast Spokane and has proposed developing a 276-unit apartment complex there. The company, Consortium Investments LLC, is seeking preliminary-plat approval a

Bluegrass Development LLC, of Coeur dAlene, is set to begin installing utilities for a planned 148-lot single-family home development southwest of the intersection of Spokane Street and Prairie Avenue in Post Falls.John Magnuson, who owns Tom

Stratford Suites Inn LLC, of Airway Heights, is developing a new extended-stay lodging facility there at an estimated cost of $6 million, and plans to complete the project by next April.The lodging facility will include 15 four-unit structures,

A company owned by longtime Spokane real estate executive Mark Pinch plans to break ground in November on two warehouse buildings in Spokane Valley. A total of four bays in the two buildings will be offered for sale.Each of the one-story will a

The Spokane Park Board has given Mobius Science Center backers until Dec. 31 to address concerns some of the boards members have about business-plan projections for the proposed center, which would be located on city-owned land just north of the

Workers wearing heavy clothing pull red-hot steel from a forge and wrestle it into a jig, its coarse, glowing surface straining as it finds its new shape. The men use metal tongs as the instruments of change as they bend the hot, malleable metal a

Businesses here say theyre scrambling to find ways to offset escalating fuel prices, and some say their livelihoods might soon be running on empty.Although rising fuel prices affect almost everyone, energy-intensive users such as farmers, and

Hotel-occupancy rates in the Spokane area are holding up this year at about the same level as last year, despite the down year projected for the industry, and have allowed some hoteliers to raise room rates. Because of that, revenue per room, a

Holy Family Hospital says construction could begin as early as next March on a major expansion that would include both additional hospital space and two to four floors of privately owned medical-office space. The hospital estimates the cost of