A young Seattle-based furniture retailer has agreed to buy a former Heilig-Meyers Co. building in Spokane Valley and plans to open its first Spokane-area store there later this month.The company, which does business as Furniture Supercenter and

Kootenai Medical Center plans to start work on a $4.7 million parking garage next month as part of a major parking expansion designed to alleviate overcrowding at its Coeur dAlene campus.In addition, a surface parking lot expansion already is

Iron Bridge LLC, of Spokane, plans to start work late this fall on a $7 million office building at its Iron Bridge Corporate Campus, along the Spokane River east of the citys University District.The two-story, 60,000-square-foot structure is

Cora Glass divorce might well have been a blessing in disguise. After her split, the Spokane administrative assistant decided to try something new in life.That something new ended up being the launch of an eclectic downtown business venture a

Ag lenders here say demand for loans is strong as improved farm markets and low interest rates are leading growers to buy more land and equipment.Loan volumes at Spokane-based Northwest Farm Credit Services grew a healthy 10 percent last year,

One of every nine people in Spokane County is without health insurance, and Spokane-area medical providers dont get paid for almost $20 million in care they provide annually, says a new report by the Washington state Insurance 37,200 uninsured in

After closing four supermarkets in recent months, Tidymans LLC plans to build three stores in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene market in the next three years while remodeling six or seven others. The plan is part of a multistep rebuilding process that

The high-tech surgery suites are already in use, birthing beds are being installed in the motel-room-like birthing rooms, and final touches are under way in the new, 47-bed neonatal intensive care unit.Sacred Heart Medical Centers $100 west a

Incidences of abdominal aortic aneurysm are occurring more frequently, and some Spokane-area physicians think a simple screening for the condition ought to become more commonplace.The screening involves taking ultrasound images of the abdominal

Before long, every American soldier in a battlefield situation will wear a personal physiological status monitor that will send commanders radio telemetry readings on the soldiers condition.The device will provide readings on the soldiers a