Spokane software developer Pentad Systems LLC has developed a computer network-based alarm system, called LANalarm, that it hopes will become the standard for such systems, and that could lead to a 20 percent increase in revenues this year for the

After more than 500 people turned out March 18 at a public hearing on Spokane Countys potential purchase of Spokane Raceway Park, the county commissioners are taking a close look at buying the facility and the acreage around it.Commissioner

Lee & Hayes PLLC, a fast-growing law firm here that specializes in intellectual property, says it has outgrown its space in the Paulsen Center downtown and plans to move to the nearby Bank of America Financial Center, where it expects to continue a

Spokane telecommunications entrepreneur Greg Green says he has been fired by OrbitCom, just a few months after becoming its CEO, and plans to sue the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based provider of local and long-distance telephone services.I wrote a $2

Spokane-based Inland Northwest Bank, though comparatively small in the commercial banking market here, is in the midst of a relatively aggressive expansion push.The 19-year-old bank opened two new branches last year and plans this year to open

Community bankers plan to compete for market share this year by acquiring other institutions, outsourcing traditional functions, and harnessing technology, a new survey by the American Bankers Association says.More than one in three (37 of the

North Idaho bankers say competition is heating up as players in an increasingly crowded banking market there look for ways to sustain growth in a cooler economy.Following several years in a hot economy, North Idaho bankers say they expect 2008

Women and men experience a similar prevalence of adverse drug reactions in the treatment of coronary-artery disease. Women, though, are significantly less likely than their male counterparts to be treated with statins, aspirin, and beta-blockers, a

Some Canadian women needing specialized care for anticipated high-risk preterm births are coming to Spokane to deliver their babies due to a spike in such births north of the border and a shortage of neonatal facilities and specialists there.So

A growing number of Spokane-area women who are at high risk for inherited breast or ovarian cancer are turning to their genes for answers, in the hope that what they find might save a lifetheir own or a family members.Breast cancer is the a