Invigorated by new leadership and armed with new strategies for recruiting employers here, the Spokane Area Economic Development Council says interest in the Spokane area is on the rise.A year ago, the EDC was talking with about six to 10 that

AmericanWest Bancorp., the Spokane-based parent of AmericanWest Bank, says it has accepted an offer to sell the former Ice World USA skating rink in Liberty Lake that it acquired through foreclosure three years ago.The skating rink, which in at

The high-tech surgery suites are already in use, birthing beds are being installed in the motel-room-like birthing rooms, and final touches are under way in the new, 47-bed neonatal intensive care unit.Sacred Heart Medical Centers $100 west a

The Asian-American population in Spokane County jumped 28 percent during the 1990s, well outpacing the 16 percent overall population growth here, a new study shows.The analysis, an in-depth socioeconomic profile of Asian Americans in Spokane by

An index intended to show the direction in which Spokanes economy is headed has reached its highest point possible, providing the strongest and most positive interpretation of the local economic trends since the index was created, its author

The University of Phoenix, a national private university that opened a small learning center in Spokane last year, says it now plans to have a 12,000-square-foot building constructed for it here.The Phoenix-based school, which serves about at a

The stock of Spokane-based Ambassadors Group Inc. has been upgraded to a buy by D.A. Davidson & Co., the Great Falls, Mont.-based regional stock brokerage, based on Ambassadors strong recent earnings report.Last week, the Spokane travel a

Its been good news, bad news for Post Falls medical-device maker Lifestream Technologies Inc. lately.Last month, the small maker of consumer cholesterol monitors announced that pharmacy giant Walgreen Co. had agreed to sell its devices at all

Associated Industries of the Inland Northwest has named building-industry executive Jim DeWalt as its new president and CEO.Associated Industries, a Spokane-based nonprofit employers group, had been looking for a new CEO since February, when J.

It was a very good year in 2003 to be an executive of a publicly traded company.Improved share prices and stronger corporate earnings triggered hefty raises for many such executives here, and more of them saw the improved market as a good time