The Medicare annual election period, which started Oct. 15 and runs through Dec. 7, is a time for people with Medicare to make important decisions about their health care-just ask the 17.7 million people who decided on a Medicare Advantage plan in 2016.

As businesses tally expenses and set their budgets for next year, many won't be able to escape the fact that health care price inflation continues to fuel increases in the cost of benefits. According to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.'s 2017 Benefits Strat

Hutchinson Chelan LLC has purchased a 90-unit apartment complex at 1815 N. Hutchinson Road from Los Angeles-based 1815 Hutchinson LLC, for $5.9 million, says James Black, senior investment specialist with Spokane-based commercial Real Estate Brokerage NAI

Spokane Valley-based coffee shop operator The Wake Up Call is planning to open its eighth location by year-end at 1621 W. Northwest Boulevard, in northwest Spokane. The Wake Up Call has four shops in Spokane Valley and three in Spokane, each characterize

Victoria Simboli graduated from Eastern Washington University in June with a major in professional accounting. She was hired by Eide Bailly LLP, in Spokane. Greig McAllister, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science, was hired last