Spokane Countys 25 nursing homes, which collectively care for thousands of elderly and disabled residents, have begun feeling the squeeze of federally reduced Medicare reimbursement rates.The Medicare reimbursement changes, though only months

Plans have been submitted to the city of Spokane for a proposed 120,000-square-foot Wal-Mart store at Shadle Center on Spokanes North Side.If the project proceeds as expected, the new development would give the aging retail complex a facelift

Nothing but boat trailers. For nearly 50 years, that tight focus has kept Spokane-based EZ Loader Boat Trailers Inc. successfully cutting sometimes choppy seas, company officials say. Now with a generally healthy U.S. economy and a strong market EZ

Providence Services, which oversees two of Spokanes major hospitals and others in the region, is asking state health-care facility authorities in Montana and Washington to issue about $241 million in bonds in its behalf.Proceeds of the bond be

Foothills Lincoln Mercury Mazda plans to open a satellite service center on the South Hill that would be the first Ford Motor Co.-certified facility of its type in the Pacific Northwest and one of only about a dozen nationally.Chris Marr, of the

United Security Bank, of Spokane, says it plans to build a bank branch later this year at a site south of Mount Spokane Park Drive between U.S. 2 and Market Street.Richard Emery, president of United Security Bancorp., the holding company that is

Inland Power & Light Co., the Spokane-based electrical cooperative, says it plans to upgrade its transmission line through the town of Millwood if Inland Empire Paper Co. selects the cooperative to supply power to its paper plant there.Inland a

A Spokane Valley development company and a Spokane nursing-home operator plan to build a $21.5 million, 200-unit retirement complex in the Spokane Valley.The development company, Arger Capital Corp., owned by brothers Prokey and Greg Arger, and

Spokane restaurateurs Thomas K. Finnerty and his brother, Brian P. Finnerty, each have filed for personal bankruptcy liquidation in the Eastern Washington district of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.The Finnerty brothers are co-owners of Spokane Bar &

Theres something to be said for recognizing ones aptitude and exploiting it.Thats what Spokanes Kevin Collins did after going to work in 1984 for a finishing shop in Redmond, Wash., that painted sheet-metal, cast-aluminum, machined, and