Beehive Homes, an assisted-living facility operator in North Idaho, plans to build a $3 million nursing home in Kellogg, Idaho, in 2005 and to start work on a $2.5 million addition to one of its two facilities in Coeur dAlene shortly.Beehive,

Plans are under way to build a $12 million bridge that would carry Havana Street over the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks that lie just north of Broadway Avenue on the citys eastern edge.Construction bids for the project could be

Salah Uddin has parlayed his experience in international business into a niche that capitalizes on personnel shortages in the U.S. Since 2001, Uddin and his small Spokane company, American Industries International Inc., have been in the of and

A $12 million project that would include a seven-story medical-office building and a four-level parking garage is being planned for a site just south of Holy Family Hospital on Spokanes North Side.Developers Al French and Rob Daugherty have a

This is a tense time for those who lead the Spokane areas economic-development organizations.Thats because its budget time.For some, that has meant stating their case before city councils and the County Commission. For others, it has

Boosted by some big-ticket projects and continued strength in residential construction, building permit activity in the Spokane area has surged this year.Through the first 11 months of 2004, the city of Spokane, city of Spokane Valley, and for

An 8-year-old Spokane girl is receiving an experimental drug at Sacred Heart Childrens Hospital for an extremely rare muscle disorder called Pompe Disease. Pompe Disease is caused by an enzyme deficiency. It keeps the body from processing to

Bad debts from patients have become a serious financial complication for health-care providers, and hospitals here increasingly are treating the problem with aggressive strategies to collect more of what theyre owed. Uncollectible patient of

A pair of mergers has left the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area with two fewer credit unions.Numerica Credit Union, one of Spokanes largest credit unions, has absorbed the 3,000-member Coeur dAlene Teachers Credit Union. Also, two of Spokanes

Robert Daugherty had been offered the top post at California Savings Bank and was house-hunting in San Francisco earlier this year when he got a call about the president and CEO posts at Spokane-based AmericanWest Bancorp.Soon thereafter, he at