Community bankers plan to compete for market share this year by acquiring other institutions, outsourcing traditional functions, and harnessing technology, a new survey by the American Bankers Association says.More than one in three (37 of the

North Idaho bankers say competition is heating up as players in an increasingly crowded banking market there look for ways to sustain growth in a cooler economy.Following several years in a hot economy, North Idaho bankers say they expect 2008

Women and men experience a similar prevalence of adverse drug reactions in the treatment of coronary-artery disease. Women, though, are significantly less likely than their male counterparts to be treated with statins, aspirin, and beta-blockers, a

Some Canadian women needing specialized care for anticipated high-risk preterm births are coming to Spokane to deliver their babies due to a spike in such births north of the border and a shortage of neonatal facilities and specialists there.So

A growing number of Spokane-area women who are at high risk for inherited breast or ovarian cancer are turning to their genes for answers, in the hope that what they find might save a lifetheir own or a family members.Breast cancer is the a

Johnny Humphreys enjoys golfing and motorcycling, so its not surprising that the retired but still enterprising former top executive of Liberty Lake-based Itron Inc. would come up with an invention that seeks to merge the two pastimes.The n a

Hart & Dilatush Pharmacy, a longtime drugstore in downtown Spokane, has moved to the Bank of America Financial Center after operating for 34 years in part of the Ridpath Hotel complex.The pharmacy, which has been in business here since 1918, to

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, says its net marginsequivalent to net incomeleaped 42 percent to $4.5 million last year, due partly to better-than-expected power sales and lower-than-expected operating costs. a

A Spokane development company says its spending nearly $2 million to convert a church complex north of the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena into an event center with planned capabilities to accommodate multiple business meetings and social located

Harbor Freight Tools, a California-based tool retailer that operates a store in Spokane Valley, says it plans to open its second Spokane store, on the North Side.The Camarillo, Calif., company plans to open the new store in mid-May in a roughly