Spokane city and county recorded a dramatic $188 million combined increase in building permit activity in 1998, zooming past numbers posted during a mostly lethargic construction season the previous year.Together, they issued permits last year a

Brothers Dave and Kevin Guthrie, who both are vice presidents of Pacific Security Cos., of Spokane, have closed Birdies Golf Center, a 3-year-old, 17-acre golf practice facility they developed east of Northpointe Plaza shopping center.They plan

Would you like to be king for a day?Its possible at Broadway Costume Co., located at 924 W. Second on the fringe of downtown Spokane. After paying a $20 to $85 rental fee, you could outfit yourself as the Duke of Windsor, masquerade as the of

LeasX, a young leasing company based in Spokane, has leased a 70,000-square-foot building at 627 E. Sprague Ave. and plans to start a telemarketing subsidiary there that it says could employ more than 200 people within two years.That Angular a

Salvation Army volunteers are bundled up and ringing bells outside bustling retail stores, contribution envelopes are arriving in the mail, and donations are being collected around the office and given to predetermined charitiestis the season &

Two Spokane mining exploration companies, Yamana Resources Inc. and Minera Andes Inc., say theyre making significant advances on promising mineral deposits in Argentina.Yamana says its has found what it believes to be a commercially viable a

As consultants continue work on a master plan to transform the north bank of the Spokane River between Howard and Washington streets for educational, recreational, and sports uses, public land holdings there could be on the verge of increasing.A

U.S. Bankruptcy Court trustee Jack R. Reeves has filed a motion seeking to have the Mars Hotel & Casino property, which includes a building and an adjacent annex at the northwest corner of Sprague and Bernard downtown, declared abandoned.The for

A Spokane delegation of business and education leaders is expected to embark on a 10-day trade mission next spring to Seoul, South Korea; Shanghai, China; and Taipei, Taiwan.The trip is being organized primarily by Whitworth Colleges Institute