Sunwest Management Inc., a Salem, Ore., senior-housing management company with holdings in 25 states, has submitted site plans to the city of Post Falls for a proposed $14 million senior-housing complex.The development would include a facility,

A Coeur dAlene-based technology startup plans to launch next week a communications software package it has developed to help doctors while they make patient rounds at hospitals and other health-care facilities.The company, InstiComm LLC, has

Banner Retail Marketing Group, a Liberty Lake company that helps small retailers stay afloat in a competitive sea of advertising, is starting to make some waves of its own, says Bill Sauther, its president and co-owner.The company, which has 75

Union Pacific Corp. says it plans to implement an up to $1 billion technological system that will revolutionize the way it operates its locomotives, and has chosen a route that runs between Spokane and Cranbrook, British Columbia, as one of two for

Sports competitions are expected to score big points for the Spokane-area economy this year, but if investments arent made in new venues soon, the region could be warming the bench rather than hosting more events in the future, an expert eyes be

Graham Construction & Management Inc., of Spokane, says Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has awarded it a more than $11 million contract to build the big Bentonville, Ark.-based retail chains new West Plains supercenter.Construction has started on the 2

A 9-month-old Spokane Valley company that designs and builds precast-concrete park and restroom structures says it is growing rapidly and is looking at developing a manufacturing plant on a yet-to-be-determined site here.Weve been meeting a

Max J. Kuney Co., of Spokane, has been awarded a $65 million contract to replace two parallel bridges on busy Oregon state Route 99E that cross Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Portland.Rebuilding the spans, which are called the Martin Luther a

The U.S. Food and Drug Administrations approval of a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer heads a list of the top five womens health stories of 2006, as selected by the Society for Womens Health Research, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy has a

Last month, researchers reported that breast cancer incidence rates in the U.S. fell dramatically between August 2002 and December 2003. Some have speculated the drop occurred because millions of women had stopped hormone treatments after a large a