A two-year-old pre-apprenticeship program offered through Spokane Public Schools is helping students enter construction-related tradesand earn living wagesright out of high school.Apprentices are needed to fill an expected shortage of as a

Coeur dAlene Honda has begun work on a $3 million expansion of its dealership complex on Seltice Way just south of Interstate 90 and a mile west of Northwest Boulevard.The project includes constructing a 23,000-square-foot showroom and that a

Spokane County has begun a search for land where it could build a new jail facility to accommodate inmate growth for the next 25 years and the expected loss of its Geiger Corrections Center in 2013. County officials plan to put a potential measure

A surgical oncologist with Cancer Care Northwest PS, of Spokane, is finding broader uses for an internal abdominal wash with heated chemotherapy drugs following cancer surgery, a procedure that once was considered a last resort only for some or

Camouflage clothing has become too fashionable to function well, contends Spokane entrepreneur Michael Sparky Sparkes.Picture perfect camo patterns, some of which are so detailed they depict acorns, pinecones and bugs, might look good

AmericanWest Bank plans to establish an operations center in the 48,000-square-foot Spokane Valley complex that Ambassadors Group Inc. vacated in August and will move 150 support personnel there from various Spokane-area locations.The moves, to

The number of people living in assisted-living facilities nationwide is approaching 1 million. Yet, for the most part, people who move into such facilities here hadnt planned on doing so, say elder-care experts.When it comes to taking a look

A longtime Spokane-based supplier of power tools and equipment for commercial contractors has changed its name to Edge Construction Supply and has sold its scaffold division.Rick Thomas, owner and chairman of the company, says that the formerly

The city of Spokane plans to phase in a new commercial permitting application process that it says should speed up the time it takes to issue such permits.Under the new process, applicants for commercial permit plan reviews will be asked to to

A West Side company plans to develop a 50-lot residential development northeast of Park Road and Eighth Avenue, in Spokane Valley, that will be aimed at independent seniors.The company, Burlington, Wash.-based Landed Gentry Homes & Communities