A joint venture involving Seattle-based Security Properties Inc. and Chicago-based Blue Vista Capital Management LLC has acquired three Spokane Valley apartment complexes for $24 million combined, says Davis Vaughn, an acquisitions investment manager for

De Leon Foods Inc., a Spokane-based company that operates a Mexican food store and deli, plans to open a second outlet at 15530 E. Sprague, in Spokane Valley, says owner Sergio De Leon.

The Washington state Department of Health says a five-year federal grant announced last month will help prepare Spokane's Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital to better manage patients with Ebola and other severe, highly infect

Employer and employee health care costs have more than doubled in the last 10 years, according to the Milliman Medical Index.