As Spokane City Council members, we weigh and prioritize many issues, requests, and concerns that come before us from individual citizens, organizations, city staff, business, fellow council members, and other local, state, and federal officials on a dail

Spokane entrepreneur Brian Southworth says he has opened an affiliate office of Murphy Business & Financial Corp., a Clearwater, Fla.-based business brokerage company, by launching a company named Murphy Business & Financial Pacific Northwest Inc. Southw

Daybreak Oil & Gas Inc, a Spokane-based company engaged in gas exploration, development, and production, says it plans to drill 20 wells in Eastern Kentucky. The company says in a news release that it broke ground on the first of those wells March 19 an

The neonatal intensive care unit at Sacred Heart Children's Hospital has received the American Academy of Pediatrics' level IV designation, which the AAP describes as the highest level of care for premature and critically ill newborns. Sacred Heart s

Sandpoint-based Unicep Packaging LLC says it has acquired a new manufacturing line that produces sealed single-dose products with enclosed applicators. The terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed. The production line packages certain topical produc

Critical Power Exchange LLC, a Spokane Valley-based recycler and reseller of backup-power equipment, has hired an additional 10 full-time employees and plans to expand its operations with two new locations in the next six months, says company spokesman Ni

Rockwood Clinic PS, of Spokane, has started renovating a 4,800-square-foot space in a strip mall in Spokane Valley and plans to open a primary care clinic there, Rockwood Chief Operating Officer Greg Repetti says. The total cost to renovate the space, lo

Arevo Health, a cloud-based software startup here originally formed to help employers track health care benefits, has dropped the second half of its name to reflect the broader applications it foresees for its proprietary software. The company now is ope