The Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center says it has leased 10,000 square feet of floor space in a two-story building on the city's North Side and has moved its administrative staff there to make room for an expansion of services at its hospital

Inland Empire Food Service Inc., of Spokane, says it plans to open a new McDonald's Corp. restaurant in the Fairways Plaza retail development near the Interstate 90-Medical Lake interchange. The outlet will be the company's sixth, all in Spokane of

John Michial Shumate and his wife, Jennifer, who own the Shumate Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership here and one in the Tri-Cities, allege in newly filed court documents that Harley-Davidson Motor Co. and two affiliate companies committed acts 9

The vacant 130,000-square-foot former Costco Wholesale Corp. store at 800 E. Third, near downtown, is to become the home of a new venture here that will offer leased storage for boats and recreational vehicles.Cip Paulsen III, whose father, Cip

Movie Gallery Inc., a Wilsonville, Ore.-based video rental chain that operates both Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video outlets in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene market, apparently has closed three of its Hollywood Video stores here.Company couldn't be

Spokane law firm Stamper Rubens PS is representing seven people, three of them Spokane residents, who claim in a federal lawsuit that they were misled into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in an oil-exploration venture off the coast of an

Implantable devices called cardioverter-defibrillators don't appear to be associated with a reduced risk of death in women with advanced heart failure, says an article published in a recent issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.Heart about

Hopeful that some of the same antiretroviral (ARV) drugs used to treat HIV infection also can prevent it, researchers from a network funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health have enrolled the first participants into a new, large-scale trial

Women with incontinence, respiratory disorders, and gastrointestinal problems have increased risk for development of back pain, according to research reported recently in The Journal of Pain, the peer review publication of the American Pain pain of