Many Spokane-area businesses are seeing their health-plan costs rise this year by at least the same double-digit percentage rate as last year and in some cases are being hit with even larger hikes. Representatives of several of the Inland plans

Before larger institutions vacuumed up Seafirst Bank and Rainier National Bank in the frenzied industry consolidation several years ago, the two banks commanded two-thirds of the lucrative mid- to upper-market commercial-banking business in and as

The additional hires will equate to roughly a 10 percent staffing increase here for Honeywell, whichwith the equivalent of about 600 full-time employees at two locationsis one of Spokane Countys largest manufacturers. The anticipated hires a

Patients and visitors at Sacred Heart Medical Centers planned new Childrens Hospital will look to animal-themed signs to guide them through the facility after it opens.The signage in the new facility will include fish that will swim around

Robert B. Goebel General Contractor Inc., of Spokane, has landed a contract to build a $5 million, four-story, 56,000-square-foot Class A office building on the former Thadeus T. Thudpuckers site in downtown Spokane.The company thats the 41

Women are stupid.Thats what one male patient blurted to Dr. Janice Christensen, a cardiologist with Spokane Cardiology PSC, years ago when she was practicing medicine in Arizona. Women doctors here say such attitudes are diminishing, though,

Last summer, the federal government halted part of a major study of hormone-replacement therapy, saying a common combination of medications used by women to ease the symptoms of menopause, and possibly protect themselves from heart disease and be a

The Washington Technology Center has awarded grants to Washington State University to support research projects the school is undertaking with a Spokane maker of pest-control products and a Richland-based client of the Spokane Intercollegiate and a

May, May & McReynolds LLC, of Boise, Idaho, which owns the Spokane House hotel, at 4301 W. Sunset Highway, has affiliated the establishment with the Travelodge Hotels Inc. hospitality chain to boost business at that local landmark.Built in the