Several Inland Northwest agencies in the long-term care industry are concerned about potentially negative and lasting effects of new training rules for home-care aides.Last fall, Washington state voters approved Initiative 1163, which upped the

Progress Tool & Die Inc., a Spokane Valley-based designer and manufacturer of industrial metal products, has launched a new line of commercial and industrial carts that it holds a patent for and that it will begin distributing worldwide in about a

Spokane-based DeVries Business Services has bought the assets of a Pasco-based mobile document destruction company called Green Shred LLC.DeVries' President and CEO Patrick DeVries says the transaction was completed on June 30, but he declines a

dical clinic, has opened in North Spokane at 10015 N. Division.The clinic is owned by Dr. Gwyneth Blattau Gay and her husband, Christopher Gay, and offers non-emergency, primary-care medical services through a fee-for-service model that doesn't

Spokane-based Max J. Kuney Co. is the apparent low bidder, at $13.3 million, for the next phase of work on the big North Spokane Corridor freeway project. A contract award has been delayed, though, due to irregularities in the bid results relating

A currently vacant building on Spokane's lower South Hill that most recently housed a bar and grill is slated to be razed later this summer to make way for a parking lot addition for a nearby commercial building. Both of the buildings are owned

With the summer construction season now in full swing, the city of Spokane recently awarded an estimated $4.5 million worth of competitively-bid construction contracts for a handful of street-work projects expected to begin this month.The city's

The Washington state Department of Transportation has awarded a contract valued at just under $1.7 million to Spokane-based Inland Asphalt Co. to resurface about six miles of Interstate 90 on the West Plains.Spokane-based DOT spokesman Al Gilson