Pawn 1 Inc., a Spokane-based chain of pawn stores, plans to open a large outletits ninth overalllater this month in Lewiston, Idaho, says Mark Lax, the companys president and owner.The company expects to open more stores within the next a

Oz Fitness Inc., of Sun Valley, Idaho, says it plans to replace its 24-Hour Fitness gym in the Spokane Valley and to renovate some of the other health clubs in the Inland Northwest that it bought last summer from the big, San Ramon, Calif.-based of

The shares of Sterling Financial Corp. have risen to all-time highs in the last several days after the Spokane-based bank holding company reported strong third-quarter earnings.Sterlings stock jumped to a closing price of $38.84 a share last

Prior to founding Humanix Corp. here 18 years ago, the longest Julie Prafke had held a job was about two and a half years.It wasnt that she hadnt worked much. Prafke had held jobs in the timber, insurance, retail, communications, metals and

Avista Stadium, home of the Spokane Indians minor-league baseball club, needs more than $8 million in upgrades in the new few years to remain a viable sports venue, a Spokane County committee has determined.The county and the Indians are about

Two years ago, longtime Coeur dAlene businessman Duane Hagadone announced plans to turn over Hagadone Corp.s day-to-day operations to five key executives.In July, at age 72, he finally did it. After more than 40 years of hands-on oversight

Greg Paolino steers a golf cart into one of the eerily quiet pot rooms at Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.s former Mead Works smelter and points to whats left of a once-hulking potline thats being dismantled and sold off, piece by a cold, the

Deaconess Medical Center plans this month to begin using a relatively new procedure to treat peripheral vascular disease.The condition, also known as peripheral arterial disease, occurs when plaque builds up and narrows arteries in a patients

Inland Imaging LLC, of Spokane, says it has bought a $2 million dual-technology scanner that will enable doctors to diagnose cancers and plan radiation and surgical treatments more accurately.The scanner will be installed in the Sacred Heart on

All was quiet and the lights were dim in one of the now-occupied nurseries in the new neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Sacred Heart Medical Center one recent afternoon. The nurses just cant get used to it, Jean Kelleher, nurse of of