Greater Spokane Incorporated has launched a strategic planning process to help guide the nearly three-year-old organization through challenging economic times and what has become a shifting economic-development landscape."To paraphrase what (new
City of Spokane Hearing Examiner Greg Smith has approved a preliminary plat request by Spokane developer Harlan Douglass for a 231-unit housing development in the Indian Trail neighborhood on the North Side.The development, called Hunt's is on
To say that 2009 has been a challenging year for the Shriners Hospitals for Children-Spokane would be quite an understatement, given that the 85-year-old hospital was on a possible closure list for months before being given a reprieve in July by a
Providence Health Care CEO Dr. Andy Agwunobi has adopted a more conciliatory tone toward Rockwood Clinic as that big health-care provider moves closer to a proposed sale of its practice to Providence rival Community Health Systems Inc.Rockwood by
The landscape of music and video sales and rentals has changed dramatically here, with smaller players dwindling in number and national companies seeking ways to stem losses as formidable competition from Internet ordering and delivery methods of a
A task force that has studied whether it's feasible to establish a four-year medical school in Spokane has concluded that such a school is feasible, says Brian Pitcher, chancellor of Washington State University Spokane and a member of the task a 1
The stock market is like an unreliable friend.Even if he's affable and generous this year, you're wary of his companionship if he squandered most of your money last year.Market volatility has a number of investors questioning just how much it
Dec. 8 / Inland Power signs biomass power pact Inland Power & Light Co., of Spokane, signed a power purchase agreement with Barr-Tech LLC, of Spokane, that gives Inland rights to all renewable energy to be generated from a generation a
Expansion of renewable energy should appreciably improve the health status of the 700,000 U.S. workers employed in the energy sector, suggests a commentary by Medical College of Wisconsin researchers, in Milwaukee. Their review was published in an
Two occupational nurses who once worked at Kaiser Aluminum's Trentwood rolling mill have built a growing business that helps employers here reduce employees' lost work time by managing their health and safety programs better and providing case and