Two years ago, longtime Coeur dAlene businessman Duane Hagadone announced plans to turn over Hagadone Corp.s day-to-day operations to five key executives.In July, at age 72, he finally did it. After more than 40 years of hands-on oversight

Greg Paolino steers a golf cart into one of the eerily quiet pot rooms at Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.s former Mead Works smelter and points to whats left of a once-hulking potline thats being dismantled and sold off, piece by a cold, the

Deaconess Medical Center plans this month to begin using a relatively new procedure to treat peripheral vascular disease.The condition, also known as peripheral arterial disease, occurs when plaque builds up and narrows arteries in a patients

Inland Imaging LLC, of Spokane, says it has bought a $2 million dual-technology scanner that will enable doctors to diagnose cancers and plan radiation and surgical treatments more accurately.The scanner will be installed in the Sacred Heart on

All was quiet and the lights were dim in one of the now-occupied nurseries in the new neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Sacred Heart Medical Center one recent afternoon. The nurses just cant get used to it, Jean Kelleher, nurse of of

The federal tax law passed last year opened a loophole so big that a small-business owner could drive a Hummer through itor at least, drive one off a car lot much easier.The law allowed a business to write off as a business expense up to of a

Its amazing how a cult film about a group of illegal street racers and their custom cars can affect the automotive industry. Manufacturers are moving away from generic styles that dominated the 90s and are designing cars with a lot more the

Lifestream Technologies Inc., the Post Falls-based maker of cholesterol monitors, says its product shipments in its most-recent quarter shot up 108 percent over the year-earlier period.The small health-care device maker declined to disclose or

Avista Advantage, Avista Corp.s long unprofitable subsidiary, finally has broken into the black.The subsidiary, a third-party manager of utility bills and other facility charges for businesses, chalked up pre-tax income of $823,000 from and 1

Former Spokane attorney James Sheahan has bought the old Sarnac Hotel building and a neighboring warehouse structure along West Main Avenue in downtown Spokanes east end.The buildings are just east of two structures that Sheahan bought in and