Nine years ago, Skip Davis needed a place like Sacred Heart Medical Center about as much as Sacred Heart needed a person like Davis.In his mid-50s at the time, Davis was living in Sacramento, Calif., and working for a national consulting firm a

Two big housing projectswhich together would add more than 300 apartments and nearly 300 homes to the growing Indian Trail Road areacould be moving ahead soon.The smaller of the two projects, a 96-unit apartment complex to be called Selkirk

In 1991, a newly minted religious studies and philosophy graduate of Gonzaga University pitched a business idea to the developers of NorthTown Mall, and, without a business background, drafted a business plan, borrowed money from a bank, and went a

Gonzaga University says it has raised $148 million through a capital campaign it launched three years ago, far exceeding its $119 million goal, and plans to conclude the campaign at a ceremony next week. The ceremony will be held Oct. 20 at the

Ever see a working scale model of a 600-foot-long dam and more than a half-mile of river through which water flows just as it would in real life as the dams infrastructure is altered?Avista Corp. has had an engineering company build such a of

Want to build a granny flat?That type of dwelling, known more formally as a detached accessory dwelling unit, and other unconventional types of housing could become easier to build in Spokane if the city approves proposed changes to its code. a

American hospitals improved womens survival rates by 11 percent for cardiac disease and stroke from 2001 through 2003, according to a study released this summer by Health Grades Inc., a Golden, Colo.-based health-care ratings company.A was a

At Deaconess Medical Center Womens Clinic, hundreds of photographs of babies who were delivered by the clinics certified nurse-midwives are featured prominently on the walls. Those pictures bear testament both to the midwives pride in their a

Spokane neurologist Dr. Madeleine Geraghty isnt thrilled with the view directly outside her second-floor office window at Rockwood Clinics main building near downtown. There, below, is a smoking area for patients and staff.Knowing that with

Thomas Hammer Coffee Roasters says its increasing its revenues, expanding its operations, and carving a niche in the coffee industryone squeezable sumo wrestler toy at a time.The Spokane-based company, which started in 1993 with a single in