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Two years after Washington voters compelled utilities to use cleaner energy, Initiative 937 backers say a measure in the state Legislature would gut that law.

SPOKANE -- Recent rainfall in the Spokane area is keeping plumbers busy and homeowners worried. Within the last few soggy days, water has been creeping into people's basements and bottom floors.

In an attempt to help its builders sell more homes, Spokane-based Sterling Savings Bank has unrolled a new incentive plan for potential homebuyers aimed at filling unsold new construction across the bank’s five-state footprint. (STSA)

March 20 2009 - HomeStreet Bank announced today that it has lowered its interest rate to 3.875* percent for select new homes for sale within its ‘Preferred Properties’ financing program. The Preferred Properties program was launched last fall and features special financing for a limited number of brand new homes in the Puget Sound region (including Olympia), Spokane and Vancouver, Wash.; Portland, Salem and Bend, Ore.; and Boise, Idaho. “Our builders have had great success with this progra

More money to weatherize local residents' homes is coming to Washington state as part of the $8 Billion "Recovery Act" that's funding energy efficiency projects across the country.

Work continues on a $17.3 million North Spokane Corridor concrete arch tunnel for a BNSF rail line to pass under the new freeway. —Photo courtesy of DOT

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With more people losing their jobs, more people are struggling to pay their mortgages, and as a result foreclosure rates have jumped more than 50-percent from a year ago.

SPOKANE -- The slump in home sales and prices hit nearly every county in the state in the fourth quarter, according to the Washington Center for Real Estate Research at Washington State University. Statewide, sales of existing homes dropped 29.1...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates it will spend about $168.5 million in Washington and nearly $23.5 million in Idaho as part of the economic stimulus package. Here’s a breakdown of money from the different programs going to the states, and where available, amounts for local operations.