Deaconess Medical Center, the Spokane area's second-largest hospital, plans to get back into the trauma-care business beginning Jan. 1.The action, it says, is part of its still-unfolding, long-term strategy to create an integrated health-care to

Aerospace manufacturing here is on the rise and is expected to continue to grow as manufacturers beef up their efforts to attract business, industry sources say. In all, the aerospace industry in the Inland Northwest has grown to include 8,100 a

The record snowfall total of close to 30 inches last month kept snow removal companies in the Inland Northwest busy clearing parking lots, sidewalks, and driveways, but caused some headaches, budget and otherwise, for other businesses here. And at

Ormet, Corp., a Hannibal, Ohio-based aluminum producer, has terminated a tentative agreement to buy the shuttered former Kaiser Aluminum Corp. Mead Works smelter property north of Spokane.In a brief news release announcing the action, the said,