A new company here plans to open in Spokane Valley a franchise store of DirectBuy, a membership-based company that offers discounted household goods.The company, Brava Enterprises Inc., has leased about 15,000 square feet of floor space in the

A development company here has proposed constructing a small retail building at the busy Division Street-Second Avenue intersection that would include a Starbucks Corp. coffee shop.The company, Keeper LLC, has requested from the city of Spokane

This game called Blongoball, it doesnt look like much.The ball is a short nylon rope with golf balls attached to each end. The target, called a blongoal, is a three-foot-high structure made of PVC pipe. The object of the game is to so

Gonzaga Preparatory School is seeking to have the Washington state Housing Finance Commission issue $10 million in bonds to remodel part of the private Spokane high school and to refinance debt from past improvements.The commission plans to on

A Spokane development group hopes to start work this fall on a $2.3 million condominium complex, to be called Bridge Pointe Condominiums, on a site overlooking High Bridge Park, in West Spokane.Steven A. Meek, a member of the development group,

The Spokane-area residential real estate market is bustling as home sales have surged, and the job market is soft, so throngs of people are choosing to become real estate agents, right?Not this time around.While hot real estate markets in a

The Spokane areas three largest four-year colleges expect record-breaking enrollments this fall, and their numbers of students continue to grow as more echo baby boomers reach college age.Freshman class sizes are increasing at Gonzaga and and

James A. Cripe, former president and CEO of the now-defunct Outlaw Decoys Inc., has received permission from U.S. Bankruptcy Court here to proceed with a lawsuit against the company.In May, Outlaw Decoys, a Spokane Valley-based maker of hunting

The city of Spokane is enforcing an ordinance that it believes makes it illegal for builders to haul away their own construction waste using certain equipment. Contractors call the citys position garbage.At issue are large trucks with can

Bringing biodiesel to the Spokane market has been like setting up a line of dominos. A lot of careful work goes into putting each piece in place, but when the last one is ready and given a nudge, the show will proceed quickly, say proponents of the