The student-loan default rate is on the rise at some Inland Northwest colleges, though institutions here remain below the national rate, the latest available data show and education officials here confirm. That generally upward trend, combined with

A rigorous work-readiness evaluation, such as a state-approved test conducted regularly here by St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute, aims to determine when and under what conditions an injured worker is capable of returning to the job.The goal a

Unico Properties LLC, a Seattle-based real estate investment, operating, and management company, says its 20-story Bank of America Financial Center, in downtown Spokane, has earned special environmental recognition from the U.S. Green Building at

ActiveWest Builders LLC, a Coeur d'Alene-based construction and development company, says it has applied green-building concepts beyond individual homes to encompass an entire neighborhood.The company's 80-home Meadow Ranch subdivision in Coeur

More than 30 percent of all electric power is said to be lost before it ever gets to its destination, but Spokane Valley-based Flyback Energy Inc. has developed a method, called flyback switch technology, to capture and convert that lost power back