Kootenai Medical Center, of Coeur dAlene, says it and two dozen of its fellow public hospitals in Idaho are asking the Idaho Legislature for help in the wake of a recent state Supreme Court ruling that makes it more difficult for such hospitals a

Family Home Care Corp., a Spokane Valley-based home health-care provider, is seeking approval from Washington state to provide hospice care in Spokane County.Michael Nowling, Family Home Cares president and CEO, says that adding such services

Project Access, a program here in which health-care providers offer free medical care to low-income, uninsured residents, is stepping up efforts to secure more funding as it works to help a growing uninsured population. It has been growing strongly

Provisional Services Inc., a Spokane-based provider of temporary help and employee recruiting, says its hoping its focus on specialized professional staffing will help continue its robust growth amidst a tightening labor market.Provisional C.

After three months on the job, Rex Fuller, the new dean of Eastern Washington Universitys College of Business and Public Administration, already is implementing changes to attract more business students to the school.Business majors, not in 8

Tom and Leslie Allen, both animal lovers themselves, have buried or cremated thousands of pets since buying Family Pet Memorial Gardens, north of Spokane near Colbert, in 1980dogs, cats, horses, parakeets, rabbits, pigs, and even rats. Yet, a

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will hold two sessions on Thursday, Feb. 8, to receive public comments on Avista Corp.s applications to relicense its five Spokane River dams.Both sessions, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 6 p.m. 9

Spokane County commissioners have approved the move of American Behavioral Health Systems Inc., a Spokane company that operates a chemical-dependency treatment center here, to a former Spokane Valley nursing home.American Behavioral has hired &

Meridian Construction Inc. has started work in Spokane Valley on what will be the first G.I. Joes sporting goods store here.Last summer, Wilsonville, Ore.-based G.I. Joes Inc., which operates a chain of sporting goods and auto-accessories a

The city of Spokane racked up an 11.7 percent increase in taxable retail sales in the third quarter of 2006and preliminary full-year figures put the citys growth in such sales in 2006 at their highest percentage gain in 23 years.Both the in