The proposed Palouse Wind Project has received a conditional use permit, moving it one step closer to generating as much as 195 megawatts of electricity sometime next year. An independent hearing examiner hired by Whitman County granted the permit one month after completion of a…
Tuesday's graphic/chart tries to identify the affinity between people who prefer one of the three main Internet browsers and that user's primary search engine. This graphic, produced by comscore and reproduced by SearchEngineWatch, suggests that people who use Google's browser really prefer Google.com. Enlarge the…
Private employers in Spokane County hired 2,100 workers in April, a gain only slightly offset by a cutback in government employment. The new hires, the Washington Employment Security Department said today, rolled the county unemployment rate back to 9.1 percent from 10.3 percent in March,…