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Pam Kohlmeier and Stephen Thew had a plan. With four grown children out of the house, the couple would leave the newer South Hill home where they’d lived for nearly 20 years and find something smaller. “We meant to downsize,” Kohlmeier says, “which we failed at doing.”
A shop in northern Idaho has a whole room called Farm Girls, and another called the Sisters’ Room. Neither one is a bedroom you can book. Both are styled displays packed with things you can actually carry home. The building once sold fabric and craft supplies by the yard.
SPOKANE, WA — Avista Corp. announced Wednesday, November 11, that its board of directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.4925 per share for common stock shareholders. The dividend represents an annualized payment of $1.97 per
Topgolf has secured the land for its long-rumored Liberty Lake venue, locking down a site just south of Interstate 90 near Kramer Parkway in October. The company plans to build a 35,000-square-foot facility with a full-service restaurant and bar, but it still hasn't announced when the doors might open. According...
PULLMAN, WA — Nearly two decades of research at Washington State University’s Wilke Research and Extension Farm suggest Eastern Washington farmers could improve profitability and soil health by diversifying crop rotations and reducing the amount of time
Spokane buyers gained more choices, more price cuts, and more time to decide as list prices eased.
The WSBA Board of Governors determines the Bar’s general policies and approves its annual budget. The agenda, materials, and video recording from this Board of Governors meeting, as well as past meetings, are online here: www.wsba.org/bog. Sept. 24-25, 2026. MEETING TAKEAWAYS. Congratulations to Incoming Officers and Governors! The WSBA’s...
Large development proposed in Spokane Valley
The water runs dry
SPOKANE, Wash. — A new report from the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) details early insights into fire spread within affected neighborhoods.
Starbucks customers in several Washington communities will soon have fewer places to grab their favorite coffee. The Seattle-based coffee chain is preparing to close five locations across the state, with…
Dark cedar siding, cantilevered decks, and a cedar hot tub look out to Lake Pend Oreille. Eerkes Architects designed this mountain modern home at the top of a steeply sloped site at The Idaho Club in Sandpoint, Idaho. Known as Basking Moose, the house looks out over pine forests, Lake Pend Oreille, and snowy mountain peaks in the distance.
One butcher shop on this list never locks its doors. It runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so a midnight steak craving actually has somewhere to go. That detail hooked me fast. Then I learned another shop sells exotic game next to its jerky, and a third keeps homemade salsa beside the premium cuts.
TUKWILA — Homeowners in Tacoma and Spokane are among the first to receive payments from a new state fund designed to help people recover money lost to unscrupulous contractors. The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries formally launched the Homeowner Recovery Fund on July 1. Created by legislation...
One Washington county seat still holds court in a courthouse that has been in use since the 1880s. That detail stopped me cold. A town that keeps something that old working probably knows a thing or two about making things last. Stretching a dollar is a lot like that. It...
SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — This week, manufacturing company 3M agreed to pay more than $7 billion to people who became sick from PFAS-contaminated water. The company did not admit liability for the contamination in the agreement.
