Spokane County homes sales tumbled in July, but prices slipped only slightly from year-ago levels, according to the Spokane Association of Realtors.A total 347 homes sold during the month, off 36 percent from July 2009 and 31 percent from June, when the last of the…
Avista Corp. is making temporary changes to its power line operations as a result of dry conditions and wildfire risk.The changes could result in customers being without power for longer periods of time if outages occur, officials said.Lines are normally reenergized automatically when they’re down.…
Customers of the Rapid Refill business in downtown Spokane have had to deal with the loss of the one store they had, near Lincoln and Riverside. Owner Stu Zimmerman retired and closed the store in June.Tony Kiepe, who runs two Rapid Refill stores (in Coeur…