Vince and Margie Perry dont live at the North Pole, but on Christmas Eve they and a dozen volunteer helpers become extremely busy.Thats when the Perrys, owners of Williams Seafood Market & Wines, in Spokane Valley, sell about 6,500 pounds a

Developer Marshall Chesrown says that if he had 200 completed living units today at Kendall Yards, the envisioned urban village near downtown Spokane that will overlook the Spokane River, he could sell them all in a weekend. His confidence a is

The big question going into the upcoming session of the Washington state Legislature is what will lawmakers do with about $1.4 billion in revenue they didnt know theyd have? Don Brunell, president of the Olympia-based Association of says a

AmericanWest Bancorps recently announced agreement to buy Pasco-based Columbia Trust Bancorp for $37.5 million is a noteworthy piece of business for the Spokane-based institution, but just a fraction of what it believes is yet to come.That to

Since his college days, Rich Umbdenstock has never thought of working in any field other than health-care administration, and on Jan. 1 hell reach a new high in that profession.Thats when, in addition to serving as CEO and president of the

An elderly female patient at Holy Family Hospital suffered from intestinal angina, a narrowing of the arteries that deliver blood to the intestines, and the constriction had left her malnourished and weak. A catheter-based procedure to restore flow

Kootenai Medical Center, in Coeur dAlene, says its creating a master campus plan this year that will guide hospital officials when they draw up a new five-year expansion strategy in 2006.KMC has hired Seattle-based Mithun Inc., which master

Mountain West Bank went into business 12 years ago in a trailer at the corner of Ironwood Drive and Government Way in Coeur dAlene. Now, Mountain West has a branch on that site, and its headquarters take up much of the 29,000-square-foot next

The city of Spokanes efforts to spur concentrated development activity in 21 designated centers and corridors with its 4-year-old comprehensive land-use plan hasnt worked out as well as had been hoped, say some city and neighborhood John the is

Itron Inc., of Spokane Valley, has landed two new contractsone that involves providing a Kingston, Ontario, municipal utility with automatic meter-reading equipment and one through which it will deploy energy-management software to a energy to of