As many Americans retirement wealth has fallen during the last two years, some older residents here have curbed plans theyd made for their sunset years.Retirement-industry and elder-service experts here say the sour investment market among

Special to the Journal of BusinessSuddenly, your mom has broken her hip, stayed her limit in the hospital, and now needs 24-hour care. The word nursing home becomes part of your vocabulary.But I promised Id never put her in one of a

A small, white dry-erase board hangs on the wall in Tom Wilsons modest office on North Market. Its been scribbled on and erased hundreds of times, but Wilson believes one of those scribbles, a diagram drawn almost two years ago on the heels of

Medinex Systems Inc., of Post Falls, says it will ask the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for permission to liquidate its assets. Medinex, which in November filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, says if the it

Spokane business owners Bill and Jane Sauther have bought an office building in Liberty Lake for $1.2 million and plan to move their advertising-production company there.Their company, Sauther & Associates Inc., does business as Banner and for

Avista Corp. just cant catch a break with its joint-venture Coyote Springs 2 power plant, which has been under construction at Boardman, Ore., since 2000. Last May, a transformer at the plant caught fire, delaying the project by several the

The Dreifus family, which owns and operates Sylvan Furniture Co., has agreed to sell five buildings it owns on the west 200 block between Riverside and Sprague avenues downtown. Sylvan Furniture had notified customers in a recent letter that to

Dix Corp., a longtime Spokane contractor, has started work on a $17 million portion of a fish-bypass project at Rocky Reach Dam, which is on the Columbia River near Wenatchee, Wash.The company also is under way on a $345,000 gantry-crane at in

For the third straight year, a record number of bankruptcy petitions were filed in Eastern Washington in 2002. The trend, experts say, is expected to continue this year.Last year, businesses and consumers filed 10,154 petitions seeking from in

SANDPOINT, IdahoIt all started in 1982 when Don and Kim Cox were sitting around, bored, on a frigid winter day. In a moment of insanity er, inspiration the Sandpoint couple, both scuba-diving enthusiasts, decided to don their gear and