The number of identity fraud victims in the U.S. increased by 3 percent, to 13.1 million consumers, last year, but the amount stolen decreased by 6 percent, to $15 billion, says a study released earlier this month by San Francisco-based Javelin Strategy

Spokane County and Costco Wholesale Corp. are etching the final strokes on an agreement in which Costco would take on the financial risk for developing infrastructure that would serve land within a tax-increment financing district that surrounds a planned

Macy's Inc.'s announcement earlier this month that it plans to close its downtown Spokane store by this spring as part of a series of chainwide cost-efficiency measures has raised concerns among nearby businesses about the potential negative impacts o

An affiliate of Liberty Lake-based Greenstone Corp. has submitted predevelopment applications to the city of Spokane for two commercial buildings in the early planning stages at Kendall Yards. The structures have a total anticipated construction value of

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.