Deputy Editor Mike McLean has worked his entire journalism career in the Inland Northwest. Mike, who also lives to reel in fish and crank up music, has worked for the Journal since 2006.
A little more than an hour's drive from Spokane, a Seven Bays, Wash.-based company owned by a Spokane couple offers cabin rentals with access to hundreds of miles of waterfront.The cabins are really luxury houseboats and the company, Dakota LLC,
Graham Construction & Management Inc., of Spokane, has submitted an apparent low bid of $9.7 million for a contract to build a new jail for the Yakama Indian Nation, the tribe says. The tribe opened bids on June 4, and the Yakama Tribal Council
Community Health Education and Resources (CHER), a division of the Spokane-based nonprofit Inland Northwest Health Services, says it has leased 3,400 square feet of medical office space in the University District and plans to consolidate its and &
Spokane-based Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists PS says it has leased space to add four exam rooms and a nurse's station at its North Side office, where it plans to hire an additional surgeon this summer.The expansion will add about 1,100 feet
The recently enacted federal health-care reform legislation that aims to increase coverage of uninsured Americans likely means that many more family practitioners will be needed here to care for the newly insured, some observers here say.The is
Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners, a nonprofit human services agency here, says its housing counseling programsaved the owners of 97 homes in Spokane County from foreclosure last year, and it's working with a growing number of clients this year
New mortgage lending rules that require loan originators to disclose key loan terms and closing costs offer needed consumer protection, but also have slowed down the loan-approval process, some lenders here say.The rules that went into effect a
The Salvation Army Coeur d'Alene Ray & Joan Kroc Community Center opened barely a year ago, but its director already is proposing a parking expansion to handle membership growth that has exceeded expectations by a huge margin.The director, Maj.
Ten of the first 18 homes planned or under construction in the long anticipated Kendall Yards urban community have been sold, says Liberty Lake-based developer Greenstone Corp., which now owns the 78-acre site. It says it plans to start selling 18
Harlan Douglass, a prominent Spokane developer, has started site work on a $28.6 million apartment complex north of Shelley Lake, in Spokane Valley, says Carolbelle Branch, a spokeswoman for the city.Douglass couldn't be reached for comment, is