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Call center operation to hire 190 in Spokane

Here's how to get to Valley businesses

Pullman company earns magazine nod

Take another look for unclaimed cash, agency says

Health district on the hunt for workplace smoking

A hotel and convention center could be built on the Washington State University campus in Pullman if negotiations between a California developer and the university are successful. WSU’s board of regents approved a plan Friday to begin negotiations with Sonnenblick-Del Rio Development for the sale of 7.5 acres of WSU property, according to a news release. The Brentwood, Calif., company wants to build a 125-room Hilton hotel and 10,000- to 12,000-square-foot convention center on the site, which is at the northeast end of campus, east of the Student Recreation Center.

WSU negotiating for on-campus hotel, convention center

Former Olympic gold medalists will be in Spokane

An Eagle, Idaho, man was cited by the Idaho Fish and Game department this week for poaching after he shot a wolf outside an approved hunting zone.

Vandals who egged a Colfax car dealership early Wednesday morning left a note at the scene decrying “the ignorant use of fossil fuels” – a note written on the back of a Winco receipt for 5 dozen eggs. Investigators were able to track down the suspects by reviewing video footage from the grocery store.

Demand for free nicotine patches and other stop-smoking aids skyrocketed in Idaho after the federal government hiked tobacco taxes by 62 cents this spring.

The mortgage crisis that's creating waves of foreclosures and tighter access to credit nationwide will affect the local economy, but don't look for an Inland Northwest recession in 2008, economic forecaster Shaun O'L. Higgins told an audience in Spokane Valley on Wednesday morning. "We're going to continue to see growth and we're still on a positive pattern," Higgins said in a presentation at the Greater Valley Economic Outlook Conference. Higgins is director of sales and marketing for The Spokesman-Review and a longtime local economy-watcher.

The Spokane Association of Realtors won a lawsuit brought by three of its members, who wanted access to the organization's database of for-sale properties without paying for membership in the future. The lawsuit, filed in mid-2004, was dismissed by U.S. District Court Judge Lonny Suko in a summary judgment filed Friday.