When I am an old woman I shall wear purpleWith a red hat which doesnt go, and doesnt suit meSo starts the poem, Warning, by Jenny Joseph, with a sentence that has inspired roughly 1 million women nationwide to don purple and a

Greenstone Corp., the big Liberty Lake-based development company, plans to build a 100-home planned-unit development in the Albion Heights neighborhood in southwest Spokane. Jim Frank, president of Greenstone, says the development will be on 22

High-end condominiums in and around downtown Spokane are selling briskly at a couple of projects, and prices of unfinished units are climbing higher in at least one instance.Meantime, more condominium developments are being considered or are in

With diesel prices above $3 a gallon and some Inland Northwest farmers having difficulty finding enough fuel to keep their machinery operating, four Spokane and Whitman county agricultural cooperatives are weighing development of a biodiesel plant

Diabetics, who typically also suffer weight problems, now can lower their blood sugar levels to normal and lose weight in a slow, steady manner thanks to an injectable drug recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, say Spokane who

In 1959, Dr. Ralph Berg and a team of other surgeons successfully performed the first open-heart surgery at Sacred Heart Medical Center, making Spokane only the seventh open-heart surgery center in the country and the first outside a major the that

A team of researchers at Washington State University, in Pullman, claims its producing exciting results in its work to develop bone implant materials for people suffering from bone-related problems, such as arthritis. It also is studying ways to

In the popular 1980s television show The Peoples Court, the host signed off by admonishing viewers not to take the law into their own hands, but instead to, Take them to court.Several years ago, though, more people began staying out a

With whats being called the biggest change in U.S. bankruptcy law in the last 25 years coming Oct. 17, several bankruptcy attorneys here say they dont understand the new law well enough yet to be able to predict how it will impact them or their

Three small Spokane companies have raised about $400,000 in start-up capital and have launched Safe Harbor Publishing LLC, to produce and market a video and travel kit designed to keep travelers safe in the U.S. and abroad.Additionally, more in