The Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center says it has broken ground on a physical-therapy building addition that will triple the space the hospital currently has dedicated to physical therapy.The addition will cost about $1 million to build a

The nonprofit Northeast Community Center says work is expected to start before month's end on a $6 million expansion of its facility in Hillyard. The expansion will include construction of a 31,000-square-foot, three-level addition, an outdoor A

Dix Corp., a Spokane specialty contractor, says it recently has landed three heavy construction jobs in the Snake and Columbia river systems totaling $14.3 million and is doing some design work on a $5 million bridge restoration project in the job,

Business advocates here say they're going to be especially conservative this year when they submit funding requests to the Washington Legislature for the upcoming session because the state's supplemental budget likely will involve more deep cuts in

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the big Bentonville, Ark.-based retail chain, is getting ready to expand its already substantial presence in the Inland Northwest.It says it has started work on two large North Idaho stores—one in Hayden and the in a

Shannon Eslick decided to enroll in dental-assistant courses at Spokane Community College through its state-funded Worker Retraining program after she was laid off for a second time last year by Insight Enterprises Inc.'s Liberty Lake outlet.The

Hart Capital Management Inc. has focused on protecting its clients' assets through two economic downturns and is back on a growth track this year, says Craig Hart, the 11-year-old asset management company's president and chief investment The is in