A coalition of alternative-fuel advocates that last year proposed constructing a biodiesel-fuel manufacturing complex here now is envisioning a larger facility and is launching an effort to find ways to make the development feasible.The which a

James F. Cotter, a San Antonio businessman with sizable investments in the Spokane office market, has bought the nine-story QualMed Plaza on Spokanes lower South Hill for $3.4 million.The building is located at the northwest corner of Sixth a

Two years ago, veteran commercial real estate broker Marshall Clark said hed never seen so many vacant retail spaces in the Spokane Valley, especially along the traditional retail area of East Sprague Avenue between Thierman and Sullivan then, he

If you drive the Spokane-area stretch of Interstate 90 on your way to work, chances are youve passed by Ernie Sims.If so, hes already at work. His job is to ensure that nothing slows you down as you traverse the metropolitan area along more

Talk back to the robo-voice that answers Kootenai Electric Cooperatives telephone, and it might help you do what you want instead of rambling on about buttons you can push on your phone to reach your party.The Hayden-based power providers a

A stepped-up effort by the Washington state Department of Labor and Industries to identify safety violations in the residential framing industry has uncovered about 600 violations in L&Is Spokane region during the past 13 months.It appears as

Spokane International Airport has decided to move ahead with plans for a new multitenant speculative building in its business park on the eastern edge of the airport property.The Spokane Airport Board is seeking an architect to design the and a

C&L Development, a residential-development concern headed by longtime Spokane home builder Craig Condron, is eyeing development of a 247-lot residential subdivision on the West Plains.Condron says the company tentatively has agreed to buy 70 of

DEER PARKThis story is supposed to be about magazine peopleliterary types who create glossy publications with clever headlines and eye-catching illustrations.On a recent afternoon at Dara Park Peruvian Ranch, however, Alyson Stockham and of

Dr. Gerhard Muelheims, a cardiac electrophysiologist who joined Spokane Cardiology PS last month, soon will begin performing here an emerging catheter-based procedure for treating sufferers of atrial fibrillation, a potentially dangerous form of be