With cameras and tape recorder in hand, Bob Rowan boarded a plane last week for rural Holmes County, Ohio, to spend seven days among the Amish.It was one of countless trips that Rowan, who creates multimedia productions of photos, words, and for
Avista Corp. says its working on the possible sale of part of its majority-owned Avista Communications subsidiary to that units CEO and part-owner, Greg Green, and other minority shareholders.Avista Communications spokeswoman Annette Miller
The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11 have forced some Inland Northwest businesses to trim their expectations, while others have seen few ill effects. Two publicly traded Inland Northwest companies have reported say
Doctors offices, pharmacies, hospitals, health insurersin short, the entire health-care industryhave exactly one year to prepare for the first wave of new federal regulations covering the handling of medical records.Its not a task Many a
An unusual offer by the Washington state Department of Transportation to exchange almost four acres of property on North Ruby Street for the construction work on two projects has failed to produce any offers acceptable to DOT. The projects include
In the latest in a string of legal actions filed over Ice World USA, a Liberty Lake ice-skating rink, three of the companys five owners allege that the other two owners are trying to cut them out of the business at the same time theyre trying 1
The Spokane and Coeur dAlene chambers of commerce have established a group called the Joint Regional Issues Task Force to tackle topics that affect the business communities in both cities. The task force includes 16 peopleeight from the Area
Plans for a $50 million, 19-story office tower in downtown Spokane havent been pushed off schedule by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or the nations slide toward economic recession, a project spokesman says.Larry Soehren, vice president of &
The Spokane franchisee of Grease Monkey, who opened an outlet of the auto-service chain in a strip-mall adjacent to Wandermere Mall two weeks ago, says he hopes to open four to five more outlets here in the next few years.The franchisee, Steve a