Thomas Clouse

Students who attend Eastern Washington University may soon have new housing options.

In a gathering Thursday of agents who sell homes, businesses and property, keynote speakers brought generally good news about the economy that fuels those transactions.

Owners will host a grand opening on March 17 for the newest Raising Cane's restaurant located in Coeur d'Alene.

About the same time in 2016 that Spokane developer Lanzce Douglass flew down to Palm Springs to meet with his estranged father, Jerri Via delivered an ultimatum to Harlan Douglass. Via sparked a relationship with Harlan while Harlan's wife, Maxine Douglass, was still living in a care facility as she battled Alzheimer's disease. At the time, Via told the aging developer that he either had to break off contact with his eldest son, Harley Douglass, or Via.

Officials at Sandpoint-based Litehouse Inc. announced this week that the name of the company that makes popular salad dressings has been changed to Litehouse Foods.

The Coeur d'Alene firefighter, who despite life-threatening injuries was able to warn other firefighters about a shooter on Canfield Mountain last summer, has announced his retirement as he continues to try to regain the use of his legs.

As part of a deposition with a lawyer, Harley Douglass described growing up around a father whose focus mostly centered on building a real estate empire in and around Spokane. Harley said navigating around Harlan Douglass, who died in 2023, was like walking across a frozen lake: you never knew when you were on thin ice.

Spokane developer Harley Douglass sought out his father, the late Harlan Douglass, in 2018 after he began hearing around town that the mercurial business giant had been complaining to others that Harley, his eldest son, both owed Harlan money and had inappropriately obtained his land.

Washington State University embarks this year with the refurbished Pac-12 Conference at a time when college sports are smashing headlong into the free market system.

In the early summer of 2019, Spokane real estate magnate Harlan Douglass walked into the office he founded decades earlier, and stood still.He was lost.Douglass, who with his late-wife, Maxine, built a billion-dollar real estate empire before he died in 2023, struggled that day to find to his office. His longtime employee, Deanna Malcom, stood up and reached out. "I walked him, by hand, to his office," Malcom said. "Then we both cried for a while.

Demolition of buildings at the site of the second-proposed Chick-fil-A in Spokane has begun.

Seventeen years ago, a social worker in Mead reached out to a youth pastor and his wife about a problem that needed attention.  

Eastern Washington farmers, who face a double-gut punch of higher input costs and low prices for wheat, could force career-altering decisions soon if economic forces don't change, an agriculture economist told them Wednesday.

Spokane Police Chief Kevin Hall called it a "mistake" Monday when he revealed at a City Council committee meeting that two plain-clothes officers attended a protest last week wearing masks.

The 20-year-old Haitian woman stood Sunday before a congregation of 400 people as tears streamed down her cheeks. Fluent in three languages, she described the fear of facing federal agents as protections end on Tuesday for about 500 of her countrymen in Spokane.

Just after 1 p.m. Saturday, Spokane resident David Dolle walked slowly south on Division Street. In his hand, he carried a large American flag that he attached inverted to a stick. 

Officials from Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories announced Thursday that company president, David E. Whitehead, has been appointed to an advisory council for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

In the rush to comment about the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti on Saturday in Minneapolis, members of the Trump administration have riled some their own supporters by suggesting that the slain intensive care nurse should not have been carrying a gun to a protest. 

Hunters have until Jan. 31 to submit how they fared during turkey and big game seasons.

Carl Van Loon, of Cottonwood, Idaho, probably wishes he would have chosen a different box to dispose of the parts from the whitetail buck that he poached from his property in 2024. 

The show that reminds campers of warmer times kicks off Thursday at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center.