Imagine sitting in traffic where Division Street meets Spokane Falls Boulevard and Trent Avenue, and instead seeing a weedy concrete traffic divider, you get an eyeful of picturesque 80-foot-tall steel columns with water cascading down their sides.

Washington State University expects to select a consultant this month to start pre-design work on a multimillion-dollar biomedical sciences facility that WSU is proposing for its main campus in Pullman, Wash.Virgil Hanson, project manager for a

Some people can be described as a heart attack waiting to happen, but Linda Fournier isnt one of them. The Hayden, Idaho, resident is physically fit, doesnt smoke, and eats a balanced diet. Yet a year ago, Fournier, 58, truly was a to a

When Spokane resident Maren Furlong gave birth to her second child at a hospital here two years ago, she felt there was too much intervention. Although Furlongs birth plan stated that she didnt want to take medications, a nurse inserted an

Lifestream Technologies Inc., of Post Falls, completed a $3.5 million private placement that will allow the company to proceed with a major advertising campaigna tool it long has said is necessary to ignite sales of its home cholesterol monitors.

The Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute (SIRTI) has signed contracts with three more companies to provide a mix of commercialization and marketing assistance and incubator space.The contracts, which are with RehabLogic DAS

Spokane businessman Bob Hamacher has bought the assets of Jones Wholesale Florists from Spokanes Rosedale Greenhouse Inc. for an undisclosed amount.The assets include the companys customer base, inventory, computer hardware, and equipment,

City and county government and the media could do more to help Spokane compete against other regions to attract businesses, says a new study that examines the regions competitiveness. The study was performed by the Spokane Regional Chamber a

Key Tronic Corp.s top executives received big pay raises in the companys 2003 fiscal year ended June 28, due mostly to bonuses, according to a proxy statement Key Tronic has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.President a

OneEighty Networks Inc., the Spokane-based broadband communications company founded and owned largely by Greg Green, has bought most of the assets of a larger, Walla Walla-based company as part of an aggressive regional expansion acquired the of $1