R.A. Pearson Co., the Spokane-based designer and manufacturer of packaging machinery, has secured a contract with Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. to make 80 new machines for the soft-drink bottler. The machines will help Coca-Cola efficiently its in

The Coeur dAlene School District is gearing up to start a $23 million, four-year capital-improvement planan ambitious roster of construction projects that includes replacing Hayden Lake Elementary and modernizing Lakes Middle School.Coeur a

Collecting postcards and stamps isnt for those short on time and attention span, Mike and Kathy McLean say. To find a desirable item, the owners of Vintage Postcards & Stamps say, a collector often must sift through hundreds of items to find

Spokane developer Rob Brewster Jr. has bought seven buildings and a parking lot in the east end of downtown Spokane and is planning a multimillion-dollar construction-and-renovation project there.The buildings include a total of about 84,000 of

The Spokane areas four major hospitals together spent about $12.3 million on charity care last year and wrote off about another $13.8 million in bad debt. Though that combined $26.1 million rose just 4 percent last year, some first-quarter a rate

Hoping to attract more people at the younger end of the 55-and-over spectrum, Touchmark Living Centers Inc., of Beaverton, Ore., has proposed a $20 million offsite expansion of independent-living housing for its big Waterford on South Hill company

The $17 million expansion project at Valley Hospital & Medical Center wont be fully completed until later this year, but the hospital already has launched a handful of new or upgraded services in its expanded and remodeled space.In one key to

The American Journal of Physiology, a Bethesda, Md.-based leading scientific journal, plans to publish a study conducted by a group of Heart Institute of Spokane researchers, who found that diets high in protein harm the kidneys, especially in that

Some of the effects of HIPAA, the nations sweeping new health-care privacy rules that took effect last week, are readily apparent at hospitals and doctors offices in the Inland Northwest. Take the practice of signing in for a doctors It to

One day, just for fun, Denis Koch drove to one of his Tune Tech Inc. shops in a friends Porsche.A customer at the counter asked about the sleek machine after watching Koch pull up, and was relieved to learn Koch had borrowed it. The customer