Its Web site says, All you do is gather photos, sit back in a favorite chair, and talk.The product is a video biography of individuals or couples, ranging in length from five to about 50 minutes, and a Spokane Valley company called Films is

A Nine Mile Falls man who worked for 24 years primarily on the development of highly specialized machinery for Rahco International Inc. has left that Spokane manufacturer to form his own companyand now is consulting on one of the worlds biggest

Proposed trade legislation before Congress would help bolster the already substantial sales in Central America and the Dominican Republic of one Spokane-area manufacturer and open doors to that market for others, those manufacturers say.The the

When ambulance workers in Yakima responded to a call to adjust a females internal cardiac defibrillator, they expected to see a 70-year-old woman. Instead, they found 7-year-old Hali Hentze.The device was implanted when Hali underwent surgery

Inland Imaging LLC, of Spokane, says a $2 million dual-technology scanner that it installed here last fall should see a sizable jump in use in coming years thanks to broadening Medicare coverage.The scanner combines the technologies of positron

Some diabetic patients faced with losing parts of their legs might receive a reprieve from amputation through the use of a new laser catheter device at Deaconess Medical Center here. The new device called Clirpath, which is short for cool of &

When Spokane pediatrician Stephen Luber isnt seeing his regular patients at Rockwood Clinic here, hes likely these days to be studying the effectiveness of vaccines for whooping cough or meningitis, or researching possible new remedies for or a

The Spokane-area economy added jobs at a much faster pace through the first four months of this year than it did in the year-earlier period.In monthly reports from the Washington state Employment Security Department for January through April, a

Construction activity in the Spokane area is outpacing what was a bustling 2004, but contractors here worry that a pervasive cement shortage is slowing an otherwise brisk clip. Meanwhile, home-sales activity is maintaining a torrid pace, as and

Cheney Square LLC, of Spokane, is developing a $1 million retail building along First Street in Cheney thats expected to house a dollar store and a fast-cash lending outlet.The contractor on the 13,500-square-foot structure is Kofmehl Inc., a