Heart surgery here and around the nation is going through a revolution.In some cases, surgeons now are using a variety of much smaller incisions to get to the heart, rather than opening up the entire chest, and are avoiding the use of a machine

The Spokane Valley Junior Soccer Association and Spokane County hope to begin work this summer on a planned 70-acre sports complex in the Spokane Valley that eventually would include 13 soccer fields and five softball diamonds.The $1.1 million

A Coeur dAlene medical practice says it plans to develop a 17-acre medical and business park at the northwest corner of Prairie Avenue and U.S. 95 there.Hayden Lake Family Physicians, which is owned by Dr. Mark Borsheim and Dr. Terry Riske, to

One of Spokanes biggest auto dealerships, Appleway Automotive Group, has bought the rights for Washington and Idaho to open nationally franchised used-car superstores called Drivers Marts, each of which is expected to carry large inventories of

A common sight in the heavily urban Kansai Region of Japan is that of a man in dapper business attire riding a bicycle, carrying a portfolio case in his bikes front basket and holding a cellular phone to his ear.Spokane delegates who returned

The Washington state Department of Transportation finally has released its preferred route for the long-proposed north-south freeway, which would carry traffic between Interstate 90 on the south and both U.S. 2 and U.S. 395 north of Spokane.DOT

Vandervert Development LLC, of Spokane, plans to develop a $9 million office complex on a 6.2-acre parcel behind the ShopKo store at Northpointe Plaza on Spokanes North Side, says Dick Vandervert, president of the development company.The which

Construction of an outlet for CompUSA, a Dallas-based computer retailer, will begin this summer just north of Cavanaughs River Inn and east of Ruby Street where Ruby splits away from Division Street, says Tom Barbieri, vice president of Goodale &

In the year ended June 30, 1996, deposits in financial institutions in Spokane County grew at the lowest rate in a decade, new figures show.Deposits in the county totaled $4.091 billion as of June 30, up just 1.3 percent from $4.039 billion at 2

After surpassing lofty goals for wholesale power sales last year, Washington Water Power Co. is raising the bar once again.The Spokane company had projected it would sell $190 million worth of surplus electricity in 1996. It did that and up $230