The parent organization for Spokane-based Providence Health Care, the Inland Northwest's largest health-care system, is seeking the issuance of up to $222.4 million in tax-exempt special-fund revenue bonds in a facilities refinancing request that includ

Spokane and surrounding area residents will walk for cures in the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's Northwest Chapter's Take Steps Walk on Sept. 24 at 4 p.m. at Riverfront Park in Spokane. Take Steps is a family-friendly community celebration dedicate

The cost of health care in the U.S. is approximately $3 trillion-more than what we spend in education, transportation, or defense. We as consumers also spend $502 billion a year on health care-related services, products, and devices. This is projected t

Wake Up Inc., the parent company of the Spokane-Valley-based Wake Up Call coffee shop company, has leased a 14,200-square-foot corner lot at 1814 N. Division, where the company plans to construct its seventh outlet. Christopher Arkoosh, who co-owns Wake

As Seattle City Council members prepare to pass a controversial bill that would restrict how employers schedule their workers, evidence continues to reveal that such regulations are unnecessary and that many workers don't want them. A group of more tha

Initiative 1433, which would raise Washington state's minimum wage and would require all employers to begin offering sick leave, has noble intentions-to boost the income of more than 730,000 low-income workers, lift families out of poverty, and grow t

Laura Lawton, president and majority owner of 76-year-old Lawton Printing Inc., says the Spokane company has made a 'seven-figure purchase” of a digital press that she claims is the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. Lawton says the company

BDO USA LLP, Gallagher Benefit Services Inc., and Moss Adams LLP are the three finalists in the 1,000-plus employee category of a Best Places To Work Inland Northwest recognition program launched this year by the Journal of Business. Prominent names also