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
Spokane Transit Authority is in the early stages of planning for a $12 million West Plains transit center aimed at increasing passenger capacity and better connecting small cities west of Spokane.
STA is seeking outside engineering and design consultants
The rate of growth, however, might not keep pace with this year, says Grant Forsyth, regional labor economist for Spokane-based Avista Corp. He's projecting a 1.5 percent increase in employment next year in Spokane and Kootenai counties, which would be
In some sectors of the Inland Northwest economy, activity levels are returning to prerecession levels, welcome news that comes none too soon for economic observers.
In overall employment, Spokane-area economists are expecting job growth next year, though
The Spokane County stormwater utility department is in the design stages of an estimated $2.5 million restoration project that will remove a longtime asphalt drainage channel that serves as a median separating the traffic lanes on Country Homes Boulevard,
Spokane Public Schools plans to shuffle facility uses by next fall to expand some programs and address a state-required reduction of class sizes for certain elementary grades.
Assistant Superintendent Mark Anderson says the district also has started a s
The future of the IMAX theater in downtown Spokane appears more clouded in the wake of a Riverfront Park advisory committee's recent recommendation to stop showing movies there.
The group's recommendation is part of an overall report on current plann
While the state as a whole has become relatively more optimistic about the state of the economy, Eastern Washington businesses are just as pessimistic about it as they were in 2012, says the findings of a survey by the Spokane office of Portland-based Gal
When Hertz Equipment Rental opened a 25,000-square-foot showroom and service outlet here two months ago to sell and rent out industrial and construction equipment, the global company noted that the new site is located in one of the top 100 U.S. metro mark