MSC incorporated as Premera Blue Cross, one of Eastern Washingtons biggest health-plan providers, has implemented a 24 percent rate hike for its small-employer pool, through which it serves about 50,000 workers in Eastern Washington.Although a

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Inc. (PAML), the Spokane-based regional medical laboratory that performs large numbers of tests on bodily fluids, plans to move its Spokane operations next year from two locations in the Spokane Valley to a

Squeezed between a neon-illuminated bail bond office and a corner caf painted in vivid art-deco colors, rustic Crescent Machine Works Inc., at 821 N. Monroe, looks distinctly out of place.The only thing along the weather-beaten front of the to

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, has raised more than $293 million through a recent offering, called a securitization, that involved the sale of about 3,500 adjustable-rate and fixed-rate mortgage loans.The latest completed by

A limited partnership formed by Spokanes Wells & Co. and Avista Development Inc., also of Spokane, plans to renovate the former Rodeway Inn City Center into a high-tech office building that would be part of whats becoming known as the Terabyte

Clear Channel Communications Inc., a big San Antonio, Texas-based, diversified-media company that recently acquired six Spokane radio stations as part of a huge transaction, has bought a 16,500-square-foot building at 808 E. Sprague and plans to of

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, posted a loss applicable to common stockholders of about $12.4 million in its quarter ended June 30, up sharply from a $2.8 million loss in the year-earlier period, according to a recent filing in

Plans for a proposed new office tower at the southeast corner of Howard Street and Riverside Avenue in downtown Spokane have progressed with the naming of a Portland architectural firm to design the structure.The firm, Thompson Vaivoda & Inc., &

Wells & Co., the Spokane design-build enterprise owned by Ron and Julie Wells that specializes in rehabilitating historic buildings, plans to convert several older structures just west of the Steam Plant Square complex into an office-retail center

Helen Givens grew up not far from the Oregon coast, became a competitive swimmer at an early age, dreamed as a child about being a mermaid, and developed a lasting appreciation for aquatic life.Given such a background, its not surprising that