A longtime Spokane garment manufacturer that now employs just one-fifth of the 450 workers it once did says it has righted itself against tall odds and tough overseas competition and again is on solid financial ground.Joe Doohan, president of a

Amica Mutual Insurance Co. says it plans to move its 56-employee service center here to larger quarters and to add 23 employees at the center by June.The big Lincoln, R.I.-based insurer has leased about 12,000 square feet of office space at E.

Two envisioned West Plains developments, one just proposed and the other just getting under way, would add 843 residences there, further stoking activity in a once-stagnant area where new housing starts have been heating up recently.Foursquare

Kootenai Medical Center, of Coeur dAlene, says it and two dozen of its fellow public hospitals in Idaho are asking the Idaho Legislature for help in the wake of a recent state Supreme Court ruling that makes it more difficult for such hospitals a

Family Home Care Corp., a Spokane Valley-based home health-care provider, is seeking approval from Washington state to provide hospice care in Spokane County.Michael Nowling, Family Home Cares president and CEO, says that adding such services

Project Access, a program here in which health-care providers offer free medical care to low-income, uninsured residents, is stepping up efforts to secure more funding as it works to help a growing uninsured population. It has been growing strongly

Provisional Services Inc., a Spokane-based provider of temporary help and employee recruiting, says its hoping its focus on specialized professional staffing will help continue its robust growth amidst a tightening labor market.Provisional C.

After three months on the job, Rex Fuller, the new dean of Eastern Washington Universitys College of Business and Public Administration, already is implementing changes to attract more business students to the school.Business majors, not in 8

Tom and Leslie Allen, both animal lovers themselves, have buried or cremated thousands of pets since buying Family Pet Memorial Gardens, north of Spokane near Colbert, in 1980dogs, cats, horses, parakeets, rabbits, pigs, and even rats. Yet, a

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will hold two sessions on Thursday, Feb. 8, to receive public comments on Avista Corp.s applications to relicense its five Spokane River dams.Both sessions, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 6 p.m. 9