A trend toward women using oral contraceptives more frequently to reduce their number of menstrual cycles dramatically is gaining momentum, say health professionals here and nationally. By staying on birth control pills continuously, rather one

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, plans to move its downtown branch to a more prominent location in the same building and also plans to move its corporate headquarters there formally.Susan Horton, Wheatlands chairwoman, president, and CEO, says the

SplashDown Concessions Inc., a longtime Spokane Valley water-park operation, plans to expand the business with a giant bowl that drops swimmers out of the bottom.Its the first phase of a planned multiyear expansion, which will add several new

Premier Manufacturing Inc., a Spokane Valley precision sheet-metal fabricator, has absorbed I-90 Express Finishing Inc., an affiliated powder-coating concern, and is moving the two operations into the former Ice World building, in Liberty corporate

An expressway to the information superhighway might come to Spokane within a year.An Eastern Washington consortium wants to light up an extremely high-speed, large-bandwidth fiber-optic network between Spokane and Seattle and establish a hub of

Building Material Distributors Inc., a Northern California company that supplies building materials to lumber yards, building material dealers, and home-improvement chains, recently acquired the assets of White Water Forest Products Inc., a treated

A Spokane businessman plans to open an Airstream recreational vehicle dealership in Spokane Valley next month.The dealership, Airstream of Spokane, will be located at 1104 N. Park just south of Interstate 90 and west of Argonne, says Nick who a

Spokane County expects to start work this spring on a multiyear, $35.6 million project to widen and reconfigure the heavily used Bigelow Gulch Road route that serves as a bypass between Spokanes North Side and the Valley.That about 8.5-mile a

When sisters Kim Stone, of Spokane, and Melissa Earle, of Sarasota, Fla., decided to go into business together they had some issues to resolve.Stone refused to move to Sarasota, and Earle refused to move to Spokane, so the compromise solution &

A crush of apartment construction is under way in the Spokane area, following relatively little activity in that building sector in recent years. Spokane County and the city of Spokane issued building permits for $93.1 million in multifamily up