A new facility for Spokane Valley-based grain-silo and storage-bin fabricator Scafco Corp. is being mulled.A real estate development company formed by Scafco President Lawrence Stone, named Lawrence B. Stone Properties #11 LLC, has asked the to

Imagine sitting in traffic where Division Street meets Spokane Falls Boulevard and Trent Avenue, and instead seeing a weedy concrete traffic divider, you get an eyeful of picturesque 80-foot-tall steel columns with water cascading down their sides.

Washington State University expects to select a consultant this month to start pre-design work on a multimillion-dollar biomedical sciences facility that WSU is proposing for its main campus in Pullman, Wash.Virgil Hanson, project manager for a

If you remember the days before political correctness, you might recall the sentiment, Someone ought to knock some sense into that kid.It was meant figuratively in most instances, but in Anthony Bonanzinos case, thats literally what his

With mortgage rates nearly a point higher than they were earlier this year and much of the refinancing demand satisfied, the white-hot home-loan market has cooled considerably, perhaps signaling an industry shakeout.Some of the decline in has a

A series of computer viruses that wormed their way into corporate America last month has spurred some Spokane-area businesses and agencies to review their cyber safeguards.What theyre finding is of little comfort in many cases, professionals

The University of Phoenix, a large private university that targets working professionals, has opened a Spokane learning center and plans to start offering classes here later this month.The Phoenix-based school, which operates 130 learning in 26

Flagstone Development Group Inc., a company here headed by Spokane home builder Jim Sullivan, is proposing two new planned-unit developments in the Spokane area with a combined value of roughly $13 million.On Spokanes South Hill, Flagstone a

Spokane-based Wheatland Bank has agreed to sell its Cheney branch and transfer that branchs deposits to Spokane Teachers Credit Union. The loans held by Wheatlands Cheney branch will remain with Wheatland, but the branchs four employees a

Attorney Mary E. Schultzs corner office is filled with trophies, most of which are from her days of competitive karate. One exception is a motocross trophy, a sport in which she competed while growing up in Great Falls, Mont.Classic music the