Already among the fastest-growing companies in Washington state, the Spokane-based security company Argus Services Inc. is planning an aggressive expansion into the southwestern U.S. during the next year.Separately, Argus is negotiating to Jim

Last year, tax-law changes provided individual income-tax relief. This year, however, its all business.A federal economic-stimulus bill, called the Jobs Creation and Workers Assistance Act and signed into law last spring, provides a for a

A prominent Sandpoint family is planning a $31 million, 102-unit condominium development on the last big piece of undeveloped lakefront property inside the North Idaho resort towns city limits. Construction of the sprawling project, to be is

For Maxine Wolfendale, 85, advancing in age means daily tasks have become daily challenges. Even cooking a healthy meal is difficult for the retired nurse. What was Wolfendales solution? She stopped eating.Enter Havenwood Caregiver which

Riverview Retirement Community, of Spokane, is studying whether to develop a large retirement complex in the Liberty Lake area.Riverview, which has operated a senior-living development in Spokane for 43 years, has hired Santa Monica, Services a

COEUR DALENEThe owners of Beehive Homes, an assisted-living center here, have broken ground on the $2 million first phase of a similar facility that will be located at the east end of Sherman Avenue. Beehives owners, Gary Ghramm and his a

To keep their businesses afloat in an era of do-it-yourself software, an increasing number of independent bookkeepers here have adjusted to meet the needs of tech-savvy business owners. Quickbooks and other accounting software, such as Mas 90 a

Income-tax relief passed in 2001 is beginning to bear fruit this year, and Spokane-area tax accountants say taxpayers still can take action to benefit from the measures now and in the future.The Economic Growth & Tax Relief Reconciliation Act a

The Bellevue, Wash.-based company that owns Land Rover Spokane has bought a former Cadillac and Infiniti dealership site on the west side of Adams Street between Second and Third avenues and plans to move its sport-utility vehicle dealership there

Spokane natives John Keegan and Lynette Byrne say they have entered into a franchise agreement with Batteries Plus, a Wisconsin-based retail chain, and plan to open three Batteries Plus stores here over the next two years.The franchisees say of