Kootenai Health, the Coeur dAlene-based hospital system that operates Kootenai Medical Center, projects in its recently completed strategic plan that it will spend at least $55 million to expand and renovate facilities in Coeur dAlene and go of

Spokane pulmonologist Dr. Gregory Loewen says a combination laser and drug treatment that he helped develop is showing promise in curing early-stage lung cancer. Loewen says he has used the treatment, called photodynamic therapy, successfully a

AmericanWest Bank plans to establish an operations center in the 48,000-square-foot Spokane Valley complex that Ambassadors Group Inc. vacated in August and will move 150 support personnel there from various Spokane-area locations.The moves, to

When Medicares welcome wagon rolls around the corner this year, Part B recipients are invited to take advantage of screenings, tests, shots, and referrals to other health-care providers through a one-time preventive Welcome to Medicare Exam

For seniors who can see retirement looming on the horizon or who have retired recently, a careful inspection of retirement plans and last-minute fine tuning are critical to ensuring a smooth transition into the twilight years, financial planners of

The number of people living in assisted-living facilities nationwide is approaching 1 million. Yet, for the most part, people who move into such facilities here hadnt planned on doing so, say elder-care experts.When it comes to taking a look

Lori and Jeff Koppa werent waiting for a sign to start their own business, but one day it just showed up, in the form of a friendly challenge. They have been making decorative hand stenciled wooden signs with inspiring, touching, or clever ever a

A longtime Spokane-based supplier of power tools and equipment for commercial contractors has changed its name to Edge Construction Supply and has sold its scaffold division.Rick Thomas, owner and chairman of the company, says that the formerly

The city of Spokane plans to phase in a new commercial permitting application process that it says should speed up the time it takes to issue such permits.Under the new process, applicants for commercial permit plan reviews will be asked to to

A West Side company plans to develop a 50-lot residential development northeast of Park Road and Eighth Avenue, in Spokane Valley, that will be aimed at independent seniors.The company, Burlington, Wash.-based Landed Gentry Homes & Communities