The city of Cheney quietly has strengthened its infrastructure over the last couple of years and used conservative budgeting to avoid the recession-related financial woes that many local jurisdictions are experiencing.Now, it's taking steps to a

The Spokane Tribe of Indians has cleared an initial hurdle that it needed to leap to begin negotiating the lease of city-owned land along the Spokane River just west of Riverfront Park where it wants to develop a large cultural center costing of $6

The Spokane Angel Alliance, a nonprofit entity set up to help fund promising companies here and a bulked-up successor to the Delta Angel Group, has gotten off to an encouraging start in its first year, says Tom Simpson, who spearheaded its already

Siblings Kim and Matt Davidson didn't anticipate when they left other careers to take over family-owned Davidson Commodities Inc., of Spokane, that changing market conditions would spur them to revamp the 20-year-old grain-trading business almost a

The Coeur d'Alene Tribe says it has received $11.8 million in federal funds to help build a new, $17.3 million Benewah Medical Center, in Plummer, Idaho, located about 30 miles south of Coeur d'Alene along U.S. 95.The tribe says it expects to a