Inland Northwest producers of chickpeas and other legumes expect to see economic benefit from two initiatives in the recently passed five-year farm bill, agricultural industry observers say.
One of the measures in the Agricultural Act of 2014 provides $1
Two bills introduced recently in the Washington state Legislature and sponsored partly by Spokane-area legislators would give Spokane County more options for creating a port district to help promote economic development here.
One or the other of them, h
Spokane County and two cities that lie within it still are in the process of negotiating a possible revenue-sharing agreement for industrial-zoned land on the West Plains, says Al French, Spokane County commissioner.
The talks are moving forward, but no
The city of Spokane is seeking proposals from engineering firms for design and construction management of an estimated $80 million to $100 million upgrade at the city's Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility sewage-treatment plant.
Marlene Feist, th
Financial institutions in Washington state are anticipating federal guidance on how best to navigate the precarious issue of state law versus federal law in regard to allowing marijuana businesses access to traditional banking services.
That question h
Landscape architect Len Zickler, a principal in the Spokane office of Tacoma-based AHBL Inc., says the company is seeing more requests to design environmentally friendly infrastructure to manage stormwater drainage.
He expects this approach, called low-
The U.S. State Department has awarded a $131 million contract to a design-and-construction team that includes Integrus Architecture PS, of Spokane, as the architect of record for a new U.S. embassy compound to be constructed in the northwestern African co
The first phase of a long-envisioned Deer Park Business & Industrial Center project finally is moving forward after the Deer Park City Council approved a $1.3 million local improvement district bond last month.
Bob Lee, owner of Deer Park-based Centennia
Foreclosure actions completed in Spokane County swelled to a record level in 2013 following a four-year low in 2012, despite other indicators of improving real estate market trends.
Last year, the Spokane County Auditor's Office recorded 1,211 foreclos
Bankruptcy filings fell again in Eastern Washington and North Idaho last year, marking the third year in a row that they've declined.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court's Eastern District of Washington reported 5,057 cases filed in 2013, down 7 percent from