Nearly a year and a half after voters approved a $64.3 million bond measure to fund the first major upgrades of Riverfront Park since it was constructed for Expo '74, the first projects to be funded under the measure are set to go to bid this spring. P

Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart has asked the mayor's office to pick two advisers from his staff to join two, yet-to-be-named city council members to study how Spokane will enforce the earned safe and sick leave policy scheduled to take effe

Spokane-based MMEC Architecture & Interiors, which has an office in the Tri-Cities, is designing a $9.5 million office building at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Richland.

Ten years after Washington State's Smoking in Public Places law was put into effect, local health officials and restaurant owners agree that overall the smoking ban has been a good thing both for workers and for business.

Costco Wholesale Corp. plans to leave the city and move its busy north Spokane store a few miles north into an unincorporated area of the county.

Just over a year after voters greenlighted a major Riverfront Park revitalization project, crews have yet to start work on the project. Now, the Spokane Park Board expects the needed improvements to cost more than the $64.3 million voters approved for the

With expectations for a short state Legislative session that likely will focus on addressing public education mandates, many legislative priorities for the Spokane-region business community focus on protecting prior and ongoing commitments and encouraging

The new federal budget contains a cut to Social Security benefits that could limit options for baby boomers close to retirement-and everybody who follows them. Hidden in the budget bill is a change to Social Security that eliminates file-and-suspend ru