A rare birth defect called anencephaly has increased dramatically among infants born in three Eastern Washington counties this decade. Since 2010, the rates of anencephaly in Benton, Franklin and Yakima counties have been significantly higher than both t

Future nursing education should involve more learning in teams with cross-discipline health care students, working together in patient scenarios and using technology, says the new Spokane-based dean of the Washington State University College of Nursing.

Bill Savitz spent most of his 40-year career at Garco Building Systems, working for and eventually co-owning the West Plains pre-engineered building maker. Now, the 59-year-old veteran of industry is building something new: a business accelerator. As CE

Spokane Public Facilities District officials say they are shifting their focus, which in recent years has been on projects at the Spokane Convention Center, to Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. 'We've always got an ongoing list of projects requiring r

The Spokane Mann-Grandstaff Veteran Affairs Medical Center plans to erect a mental health and education building on its campus in northwest Spokane to kick off a few projects in the works there with a combined value estimated at nearly $35 million. The n

Even as hundreds of new apartments are set to come online, vacancy rates remain low, and rents are edging upward, meaning development of rental housing isn't likely to slow down any time soon, some professionals involved in the construction industry say

Alliance Data Systems Corp., the Plano, Texas-based credit-card, customer-service call center operator, has expanded its Coeur d'Alene operations by moving into an additional 75,000-square-foot building, and intends to add 200 more employees there by th