Spokane-based Biomedex Inc. has launched a subsidiary that hopes by next year to begin selling health-related products in China. The new unit, called Biomedex International LLC, already has hired an international marketing manager who has in in

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, has reported net income of about $366,000 for its third fiscal quarter ended June 30, down markedly from net income of about $5 million in the year-earlier quarter.The latest quarterly were on

C&L Development, a residential-development concern headed by longtime Spokane home builder Craig Condron, is eyeing development of a 247-lot residential subdivision on the West Plains.Condron says the company tentatively has agreed to buy 70 of

Kootenai Medical Centers board of trustees has approved a five-year, $50 million expansion plan that will get under way this fall at the Coeur dAlene hospital.The plan involves nine construction projects ranging from simple remodeling jobs

DEER PARKThis story is supposed to be about magazine peopleliterary types who create glossy publications with clever headlines and eye-catching illustrations.On a recent afternoon at Dara Park Peruvian Ranch, however, Alyson Stockham and of

Getting an appointment with Patrick Tam is something of a challenge. The business day of the new executive director of the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute goes way beyond doing lunchTam routinely books meetings a

Inland Imaging LLC, which touts itself as the Inland Northwests largest provider of radiology services, is taking steps on multiple fronts to upgrade or broaden those services even further.The Spokane-based enterprise is spending more than $1

The economic slowdown apparently didnt staunch the flow of money to top-level Inland Northwest executives last year.Executives of publicly traded companies in Spokane and North Idaho, on average, saw their paychecks grow a hearty 7 percent in

In the movies, when people wake from a coma, they typically come to, blink their eyes a few times, then carry on with their lives as if nothing had happened.The reality is, unfortunately, harsher than that, says Janice White, service in

Dr. Gerhard Muelheims, a cardiac electrophysiologist who joined Spokane Cardiology PS last month, soon will begin performing here an emerging catheter-based procedure for treating sufferers of atrial fibrillation, a potentially dangerous form of be