Thomas Hammer Coffee Roasting Co., a Spokane company with nine retail coffee houses and about 200 wholesale customers, says it plans to more than double the size of its retail chain, including entering markets as far away as San Francisco, while on

Manufacturers here say they've started seeing slow but steady growth and recovery in both the local and national market, and are hopeful about 2011, though cautiousness remains.The national press has been reporting for some time that has been I

North Idaho's Silver Valley is poised for renewed prosperity in mining—and the highly paid jobs that industry brings—but the most recent proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up historic mining pollution there that

The Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center says it expects to start construction this month on a $6.5 million outpatient mental-health building that will provide space for its behavioral health services to meet the growing psychological needs of a

Due to advances in medicine and the administration of more personalized treatments, people with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) aren't just able to live longer: Many are able to live what some practitioners here describe as normal of those a