Since Curtiss and Laura Grenz started their company, Concrete Works Statuary Inc., theyve noticed fads in the yard-ornament business blossom and wither like Spokane-area lawns during a typical cycle of the seasons.Trends have included from to

Inland Northwest Health Services plans to hire 70 well-paid computer-technology and health-care analysts this year and next as it upgrades its electronic regional health-care information network.The workers, who will earn between $60,000 and a

Spokane could emerge over the next couple of months as one of the main battlegrounds in an intensifying statewide tobacco war, some of the likely combatants say.Two groups, Breathe Easy, Washington! and the Entertainment Industry Coalition, to

Buoyed by support it has received from several technology companies here, the city of Spokane hopes to develop a citywide broadband wireless-communications infrastructure that it believes would enhance public safety and boost economic would provide

Two Washington State University researchers who developed a compound that may help treat patients with early-stage Alzheimers disease now are testing a compound they believe might immobilize cancer tumors and kill cancer cells.Psychologist he

World Wide Packets, the Spokane Valley-based maker of devices for fiber-optic communications, is pumping the $24.5 million in venture funding it landed recently into networkingin the social sense of the word.The company, launched by Ethernet

When the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute breaks ground this summer on its planned technology building near the rail lines just east of downtown, it will be breathing new life into a long-neglected area seen as having vast

The Washington state Department of Transportation has awarded Max J. Kuney Co., of Spokane, a $5 million contract to lower part of Farwell Road and construct four bridges over Farwell to build part of the North Spokane Corridor there.Mike the a

Northwest Architectural Co. has become the largest Spokane-based architectural firm by focusing on three Hs: high school, health care, and higher education.It just so happens that those sectors consistently generate some of the biggest in the

The city of Spokane Valley has awarded Mooney & Pugh Contractors Inc., of Spokane, a $7.5 million contract to build the CenterPlace Community Center at Mirabeau Point Park.Mooney & Pugh project manager Jerry Potter says nine other construction