Spokane restaurateurs Mike and Cheryl Didier plan to open a secondand even largerProspectors Bar & Grill, the big West Plains restaurant that opened last spring.The couples company, Prospectors Inc., has agreed to lease a planned building

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians, in what appears to be an escalating competition with the Coeur dAlene Tribes growing hotel and casino complex near Worley, Idaho, this week launched a multimillion-dollar expansion of its Northern Quest Casino in

Steve Ahler is a longtime fixed-wing pilot, but he always had a desire to build a helicopter. He finally did so in the late 1990s, taking three years to assemble an experimental Glasair two-seater from a kit.Little did he know that the of that

Inland Northwest hospitals have begun battling runaway malpractice insurance premiums by self-insuring, pooling their resources, and even outsourcing the operation of risk-laden departments. Sacred Heart Medical Center here, for example, and a

Sizzling new cell-phone games, burning-fast video transmissions, and hotly sought-after messaging services have touched off an explosion in global cell-phone manufacturing, giving Agilent Technologies Inc.s Liberty Lake research-and-development a

A new initiative to recruit businesses to Eastern Washington and North Idaho has hired former Jobs Plus Inc. President Bob Potter to generate leads. The initiative is aimed at creating recognition for what it calls the Great Inland and it be

A diploma isnt the only important document that some students have in hand when they graduate from high school these days. A growing number of students, educators say, are graduating with specific, industry-defined skills certifications that

Goodrich Corp.s plant on the West Plains here is a one-man operationat least when it comes to its human-resources department. Ben Duncan, human resources manager at the aerospace-components manufacturing company, says he hires, fires, files, he

A large number of U.S. workerssome estimates say 15 percent or morecare for an older relative while holding down a job and juggling other family responsibilities and social activities.That kind of balancing act can leave an employee pretty

Spokanes shortage of low-income housing includes a proportionate dearth of living units for independent-living seniors.Some low-income housing proponents now have their eyes on what could be a larger problem: affordable assisted-living units