Spokane-area businesses with fewer than 50 employees are seeing some of the larger hikes in employer-sponsored health plan premiums this year, though it depends on factors such as the insurance carrier and employees' ages, brokers say.
As individuals a
As more movements emerge in the health and fitness industry, especially in niche markets, Spokane's fitness entrepreneurs and larger gyms are taking steps to keep up with the times.
Targeted workouts such as yoga, Pilates, Pure Barre, spinning, and Z
Two of Spokane's largest commercial real estate brokerages say 2013 was a landmark year.
Kiemle & Hagood Co. had its most profitable year in 2013, says Larry Soehren, company president.
Northwest Bancorporation Inc., the Spokane-based parent of Inland Northwest Bank, reported today fourth-quarter net income of $406,000, or 12 cents a share, up from $182,000, or 6 cents a share, in the year-earlier period.
This marked the company's
Potlatch Corp., the Spokane-based wood-products company, reported fourth-quarter net income of $13.7 million, or 34 cents a diluted share, similar to income of $13.9 million, or 34 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter.
Revenues for the quarter di
The Spokane area, and the Inland Northwest in general, should benefit just like the rest of the state from Boeing Co. machinists' recent approval-albeit narrowly-of an eight-year contract extension with the company.
In particular, it should help ke
Spokane acupuncturist and East Asian medical practitioner Rebekah Giangreco says she strives to help women find solutions to what ails both mind and body, naturally.
The New Moon Family Wellness Center, which is owned by Giangreco and her husband, Antho
Women should talk to health providers about overall vascular health when looking for relief from symptoms caused by varicose veins, says Dr. Stephen Murray, a surgeon at the Providence Vascular Institute, in Spokane.
Females seeking medical procedures t
Spokane architectural firm Blue Room Architecture & Design PS has teamed up with Rockin' DW Construction Inc., of Spokane, and Kennewick-based R.E.A. Commercial LLC to design and build a $1.2 million multipurpose building that will attach to a church in