Yanked back from the brink of the bank boneyard, AmericanWest Bank now is eyeing renewed expansion that its new top executives believe could elevate it to a $10 billion to $15 billion institution, possibly before the end of the decade.Currently a

Inland Northwest Health Services, the big Spokane-based nonprofit, kept its strong recent growth trend intact in 2010, posting projected record revenue of about $167 million and adding more employees to boost its total work force to nearly revenue

Deaconess Medical Center, the Spokane area's second-largest hospital, plans to get back into the trauma-care business beginning Jan. 1.The action, it says, is part of its still-unfolding, long-term strategy to create an integrated health-care to

Ormet, Corp., a Hannibal, Ohio-based aluminum producer, has terminated a tentative agreement to buy the shuttered former Kaiser Aluminum Corp. Mead Works smelter property north of Spokane.In a brief news release announcing the action, the said,

Sacred Heart Children's Hospital has launched a program to install automated external defibrillators in Inland Northwest high schools, triggered partly by what it says has been a recent spike in adolescent deaths due to cardiac arrest."It is to