In the year ended June 30, 1996, deposits in financial institutions in Spokane County grew at the lowest rate in a decade, new figures show.Deposits in the county totaled $4.091 billion as of June 30, up just 1.3 percent from $4.039 billion at 2

After surpassing lofty goals for wholesale power sales last year, Washington Water Power Co. is raising the bar once again.The Spokane company had projected it would sell $190 million worth of surplus electricity in 1996. It did that and up $230

In two moves aimed at improving efficiency and patient care, Spokanes largest hospital has hired the Heart Institute of Spokane both to manage its cardiac services and, in a lesser role, to handle the admitting of patients who come to the for the

NISHINOMIYA, JapanSpokane civic leader and former businessman Ed Tsutakawa remembers as a teen-ager in Japan watching American baseball legend Babe Ruth play in an exhibition game at Koshien Stadium. The venerable old ballpark sits just across a

WTB Inc., a troubled Spokane trucking company that at one time purportedly commanded a fleet of 260 trucks operating nationwide, has filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.Petitions submitted to the U.S.

A 2.5-mile one-way couplet proposed along the Sprague Avenue corridor in the Spokane Valley would displace between 25 and 30 single-family homes, some 50 to 65 mobile homes, and a seven-unit apartment complex, according to a draft supplemental on A

Spokane-area school districts expect to kick off more than $34 million worth of construction this year, and are drawing up or seeking public comment on proposed projects worth at least another $81 million.Add to that another $30.3 million in and

Pier 1 Imports Inc., of Fort Worth, Texas, plans to open a store later this year in the Northpointe Plaza shopping center on Spokanes North Side, says company spokeswoman Joy Rich.Pier 1 has leased a 10,000-square-foot, free-standing building

Crown West Realty LLC, which operates the huge Spokane Business & Industrial Park in the Spokane Valley, is refining plans for a $15 million commercial and light-industrial center on vacant land just south of the parks main entrance.The center

Two companies from Wisconsin and California bought the former Best Products Co. building and the nearby Cascade Plaza retail strip center in the Northgate Shopping Center in north Spokane for a combined $4.5 million last month.Continental 80 an