Cora Glass divorce might well have been a blessing in disguise. After her split, the Spokane administrative assistant decided to try something new in life.That something new ended up being the launch of an eclectic downtown business venture a

Ag lenders here say demand for loans is strong as improved farm markets and low interest rates are leading growers to buy more land and equipment.Loan volumes at Spokane-based Northwest Farm Credit Services grew a healthy 10 percent last year,

One of every nine people in Spokane County is without health insurance, and Spokane-area medical providers dont get paid for almost $20 million in care they provide annually, says a new report by the Washington state Insurance 37,200 uninsured in

After closing four supermarkets in recent months, Tidymans LLC plans to build three stores in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene market in the next three years while remodeling six or seven others. The plan is part of a multistep rebuilding process that

The high-tech surgery suites are already in use, birthing beds are being installed in the motel-room-like birthing rooms, and final touches are under way in the new, 47-bed neonatal intensive care unit.Sacred Heart Medical Centers $100 west a

Incidences of abdominal aortic aneurysm are occurring more frequently, and some Spokane-area physicians think a simple screening for the condition ought to become more commonplace.The screening involves taking ultrasound images of the abdominal

Before long, every American soldier in a battlefield situation will wear a personal physiological status monitor that will send commanders radio telemetry readings on the soldiers condition.The device will provide readings on the soldiers a

The Spokane law firm Evans, Craven & Lackie PS started small, got bigger, scaled back, and now has settled in at what it feels is a good size.With 26 years behind it, the firm handles most aspects of commercial and municipal law. There we

Some disreputable businesses try anything to make a buck, even lying to their customers and blatantly breaking the law. Such was the case when a man triedand for more than a year succeededin selling magnetic mattress pads here that he told were

The Asian-American population in Spokane County jumped 28 percent during the 1990s, well outpacing the 16 percent overall population growth here, a new study shows.The analysis, an in-depth socioeconomic profile of Asian Americans in Spokane by