Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electric cooperative, will be hit with a roughly 7.5 percent increase in its wholesale power costs on Oct. 1, but has decided not to boost its members' rates until next spring, says CEO Kris just don't We
Due heavily to falling advertising revenues, the Spokane-area news media industry and related industry subsectors have shed 500 jobs since peaking in 2006, with the most precipitous decline occurring over the last 12 months, figures show. Some of
Retirement facility administrators here say the real estate market malaise and economic slump that have taken a heavy toll on most other market sectors also have crimped their sales of living units and in some cases have caused apartment rentals to
Mike Taylor, the former Taylor Engineering Inc. president who was named Spokane's city engineer late last year, has developed and has begun marketing a software application, called StrengthsMapper, that's designed to help individuals and teams work
The Spokane metropolitan area has experienced strong business "cluster" formation since 1990, reflecting an economy that now is "less dependent upon local industry and one that is participating in the larger U.S. economy," a newly released study by
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital was expected to decide by a deadline late this week whether to appeal the Washington state Department of Health's recent denial of its certificate of need application for 152 more a of
rves people with developmental disabilities and their families, has agreed to buy the Inland Power & Light Co. building and property east of downtown and plans to consolidate its operations there, says Greg Falk, its executive director.The has a
Spokane developer Todd J. Rothrock and his wife, Misty Rae, have filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in U.S. Bankruptcy Court here, listing total assets of about $932,000 and debts of $5.8 million, which they say are mostly business-related.More of
A heated legal dispute between a former Spokane County prosecuting attorney who felt he'd been wronged on a real estate deal and one of Spokane's largest commercial real estate companies ended recently with a jury here finding that three company a
Lyrics to the song "Submission" by iconic punk rocker Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols floated through a Providence Holy Family Hospital operating room as Dr. Kurt A. Anderson, peering intently into a surgical microscope, repaired damage inside the