It took mere months for the Great Recession to claim millions of American jobs. Now, as employers scramble to rebuild the workforce, they're facing a dilemma: The labor pool is shrinking, and it could be decades before it comes back.
Across the nation,
The INB Performing Arts Center debuted 44 years ago as part of the World's Fair. It's largely been untouched ever since.
That will change, effective May 1. Operated by the Spokane Public Facilities District, the performing arts center will shut down
The Spokane County Planning Department is reviewing conceptual plans for a massive distribution facility to be constructed near Spokane International Airport.
While the name of the company that will operate the facility is conspicuously absent from the p
Spokane Public Schools has about $55.7 million in construction projects in the works this year.
Construction was scheduled to begin in late March on the $20.7 million Linwood Elementary School replacement project at 906 W. Weile, says Greg Forsyth, direc
Construction is starting up on Spokane Community College's $20 million expansion and remodeling project that will enlarge and update instructional spaces in the structure known as the Old Main Building, on the south side of the campus in the Chief Garry
Eastern Washington University has two major projects worth a total of $78.5 million in the works this year on its main campus in Cheney, 17 miles southwest of Spokane.
Shawn King, associate vice president of facilities and planning at EWU, says construct
Ned Wendle, Mead School District's director of facilities and planning, says the district plans to complete two major projects this year and start construction soon on a third.
All three projects are funded through the $69.5 million bond approved by di
Central Valley School District is well underway with construction of three new schools with a total construction cost of $68.8 million.
Work on a fourth project, a new $30 million middle school in Liberty Lake, is scheduled to start next month.
The lar
Work on the long planned and highly debated North Monroe Corridor project is set to begin early next month, says Marlene Feist, a Spokane city spokeswoman.
The $8.8 million project will reconfigure a 1.1-mile stretch of Monroe Street between Indiana and
The Washington state Department of Transportation has two major projects planned this year relating to the North Spokane Corridor, says Al Gilson, spokesman for the department's Eastern Region.
So far, the department has completed 5.5 miles of the 10.5