For the past nine months, Spokane cardiac surgeons have been performing an investigational procedure in which they use a laser to pierce the hearts of patients to relieve a serious form of angina, or chest pain.The surgeons, Samuel Selinger, and

The University of Idaho is moving forward with plans to help develop a research and training park on land near Riverbend Commerce Park, in Post Falls, says university President Bob Hoover.Hoover says that if the university satisfactorily 12 the

Summit Property Development says it expects to begin work shortly on a 30,000-square-foot, multitenant building in the Spokane Valley Plaza, a power center anchored by Wal-Mart and located just south of Interstate 90 and east of Sullivan Harding, &

A general contractor hired by Circuit City Inc., a Richmond, Va.-based retail chain, has called for and received subcontractor bids for two consumer-electronics stores it plans to build in the Spokane area this year for Circuit City.Jerry of the

HealthSouth Corp., a fast-growing, Birmingham, Ala.-based health-care provider is entering the Spokane-area market in an aggressive way, with recent acquisitions and future plans.The big, 13-year-old company, whose main line of business is a of

Just when frustrated customers of America Online began scrambling last month for a new gateway to cyberspace, Spokanes Internet On-Ramp Inc., an otherwise likely beneficiary of AOLs woes, was putting a hold on accepting new On-Ramp, one of or a

Two telecommunications companies will ramp up dial-tone service for Spokane commercial customers soon, joining three other providers of such service in an increasingly competitive market here.The two companies, Stamford, Conn.-based Citizens and

Power City Electric Inc., a longtime Spokane electrical contracting company, is embroiled in a court battle with a rival company formed three months ago by two former employees. It has accused the new company of using confidential information to to

J.J. Newberry Co., the retail variety-store chain that had three outlets in Spokane just two years ago, expects to close the doors on its last store here, at Shadle Center this April, says Kevin Lake, the stores manager.The 19,500-square-foot

A partnership that includes prominent Spokane real estate developer and broker Bob Tomlinson is proposing a big residential and industrial development for a 300-acre site near Liberty Lake. The development, called Liberty Lake Meadows, would 64