The new CEO of the Spokane Area Economic Development Council, whoever that is, might take charge of a very different organization than the one that exists today. The EDC is commissioning two studies, one to see what the community, and its the

A Spokane neurosurgeon and a partner whos moving to the area from Oregon are opening a new practice in Coeur dAlene that they hope eventually will grow into a multispecialty spine center based at Kootenai Medical Center there.Dr. Jeffrey of

One of the worlds preeminent biotechnology scientists will be in Spokane this fall to talk about how this regions health-care industry and its colleges and universities can work together to build a biotech industry here. The scientist, Dr.

Jensen Distribution Services, the big Spokane-based hardware distributor, plans to expand its huge warehouse on the West Plains by more than one-third due to continuing growth of its business, says CEO Mike Jensen.Plans call for about 130,000 a

In Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, a peddling entrepreneur might pull up and offer you a leisurely oceanfront tour via a three-wheeled passenger bike known as a pedicab. On the way to a ball game in Denver, another pedicab operator might offer

When the telecom industry rebounds, will Telect Inc.which before the industrys collapse was hiring so feverishly that it couldnt find enough workers here to meet soaring production needsresume its role as an employment juggernaut?Not so

While Spokane-area home builders have been scurrying to keep up with rising market demand spurred by low interest rates, many of the general contractors here that vie for commercial building projects have been laying off employees and trimming due

Purcell Systems Inc. is bullish on the telecommunications industry. That might sound like sarcasm or a sick joke to those who serve the telecom industry and have watched that sectors sales and staffing levels collapse. Yet, the 3-year-old

Premera Blue Cross contends its racking up unnecessarily high expenses to pay consultants hired by the states Office of the Insurance Commissioner as it seeks to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, which it hopes to do by early next to

Spokane family-practice physician Dr. Bradley F. Bale, who has been an outspoken advocate of attacking heart disease preemptively, has started a heart-attack prevention clinic at his office here.Bale began seeing patients earlier this month