ROCKFORD BAY, IdahoWhat do you know heaven does have a golf course, says the come-on line for Black Rock, the swanky golf-and-housing development here. That may be so, but for some, playing the private 18-hole Black Rock course could to

Just how bad is Spokane Countys unemployment rate? We know the number and understand how it was calculated, but do we really understand what it means? Eastern Washington University professor David Bunting doesnt think so.Thats why EWUs

Taxable retail sales in Spokane County in the fourth quarter dropped by $16 million, or 1.1 percent, to $1.49 billion, down from $1.51 billion in the year-earlier quarter. Taxable retail sales in the city of Spokane, meanwhile, fell 0.7 percent to

Four years after Medinex Systems Inc. went public in a splashy $21 million stock offering, separate offers have been made through U.S. Bankruptcy Court auctions to buy certain assets and its corporate shell for tiny fractions of that sum. The a

Rockwood Clinic PS has opened a multiple sclerosis center in its main facility at 400 E. Fifth near downtown Spokane, says Dr. Steven Pugh, a neurologist there and the new centers medical director. The center is the second one here devoted to

The Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute is working on a program that would help fledgling companies fill orders larger than they have the cash flow to handle, enabling them to grow.Patrick Tam, SIRTIs executive director,

Horizon Credit Union has bounced backand then somefrom a difficult episode three years ago in which the Spokane Valley-based institutions board fired its president, who then sued Horizon. The 13-branch credit union used the messy to make

Health-care providers here, struggling to cope with relentless cost increases, receive far lower Medicare reimbursements for the same procedures and services than their counterparts in other areas of the U.S., says Tom Fritz, CEO of Inland Health a

COEUR DALENEMike Norris makes music with a DeWalt scroll saw.In his tiny workshop in the forest east of here, Norris carefully guides pieces of 5/8-inch hardwood into the saws dancing blade, creating delicate patterns that belie the from

A group of northeast Spokane landowners is eyeing development of a mixed-use residential project with a total estimated value of roughly $50 million.As currently envisioned, the development would include a 200-unit retirement complex, 200 and a