Northern Idaho Advanced Care Hospital, an eight-month-old long-term acute-care hospital, says it has received a Medicare certification that it expects will boost both its patient volumes and its work force substantially.The for-profit hospital,

After two years of groundwork that included securing funding, hiring staff members, and construction of a lab, the Sleep and Performance Research Center here will launch its first study next week.The center, operated by Washington State Spokane

Americans continue overwhelmingly to donate to a wide range of charitable causes, with more than91 percent of them participating at some level of giving, a newly released survey shows. The second annual charitable giving survey by LLC, a free

Too many people think Foundation Northwest is the best kept community secret. That, says Mark Hurtubise, its president and CEO, is why its changing its name to the Inland Northwest Community Foundation, is unveiling a new logo, and is launching a

Though there are a handful of tax-law changes to smile about as you begin to contemplate the upcoming tax season, overall this years changes likely will give you little to cheer, tax advisers here say.Most of this years tax-law changes were

A former union iron worker from Los Angeles who launched Tri States Rebar Inc., of Spokane Valley, in 1983, and his son have built up a company that now employs 35 people and pulled in revenue of $7 million last year.The business fabricates for

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, has bought 17 acres of land on the West Plains adjoining the 5 1/2-acre site where its main warehouse and maintenance facility is located.CEO Kris Mikkelsen says the cooperative

Payne Properties & Development, of Spokane, says it plans to build a roughly $2.3 million retail center at a former Wheel Sport Inc. location on Grand Boulevard on Spokanes South Hill.The project, to be called Grand Corner, is expected to two

Ascension Snowboards Inc., a new snowboard manufacturer in Post Falls, hopes its products will do more than shred the slopes. It hopes they also will help it carve out a niche in the highly-competitive snowboard industry by meeting demand for that

Eleven loan officers have left Washington Mutual Bank here to help open a new loan office in downtown Spokane for Melville, N.Y.-based American Home Mortgage Corp., and the company is looking to open an office in the Coeur dAlene area American is