An Avista Corp. subsidiary that manages other businesses bills for utilities and other facility-related services is posting stronger results, working to add to its already imposing market share, and coming closer to making a profit.The Avista

Cheney Care Center Association, which operates a retirement campus in Cheney that includes skilled-nursing and assisted-living facilities, has begun work on an independent-living complex there.The $3.5 million project, which got under way last

As more working adults here opt to care for their aging relatives or friends, theyre discovering that they must modify their job-related tasks to carry out their caregiving duties, geriatric-care professionals say. Amy Patton, a social worker

Think moving to a retirement community is going to be just like moving from one house to another?Think again.The retirement-home industry has a set of lease arrangements and fee structures unlike most others, and the system can be confusing

Months after a small investor group bought the assets of FirstPharma and rescued the specialty pharmaceutical compounding operation from the brink of closure, the salvaged startup now is growing at an accelerated clip.Operating now as Pharmacy,

Much as its products detect bacteria and microbes in substances, GenPrime Inc. has pinpointed a number of U.S. and foreign markets to which it can apply its technologies.Unlike some of the bacteria, markets targeted by the 7-year-old Spokane To

Crews have erected about 75 percent of the 411 steel towers needed for a $175 million, 84-mile high-voltage power line between Grand Coulee Dam and the Bell Substation, near Mead, and the project will become much more visible to Spokane-area which

Longtime Spokane beverage distributor B&B Distributors Inc. has expanded its distribution area in Washington and North Idaho and has changed its name to King Beverage Inc.In the expansion, King Beverage bought exclusive distribution rights for

Hotel room-tax revenues jumped sharply in Spokane County through the first five months of this year, and that and other indicators have tourism officials hoping that the visitor industry will snap all the way back this year from the losses it after

Its been good news, bad news for Post Falls medical-device maker Lifestream Technologies Inc. lately.Last month, the small maker of consumer cholesterol monitors announced that pharmacy giant Walgreen Co. had agreed to sell its devices at all