Spokane Valley-based Incyte Diagnostics has agreed to acquire Pendleton, Ore.-based Blue Mountain Pathology, says Incyte CEO Tom Rehwald. The two pathology practices signed a letter of intent to combine in early August, and Incyte is aiming for a Jan. 1

Real estate development and investment company Beckenhauer Properties LLC has bought the 200-acre Bighorn Industrial Park, in west Post Falls, says Craig Hunter, a commercial real estate broker involved in the transaction. Beckenhauer Properties is owned

Beauty spa to open in Spokane Valley Entrepreneur Ann Cao has purchased the 6,000-square-foot Evergreen Wellness Center, at 10 N. Evergreen in Spokane Valley, and plans to turn it into 7 Wonders Beauty & Spa Center. Cao hopes to open the business during

At last count, firefighters were battling 82 major wildfires in 10 western states. The fires already have scorched 2,300 square miles of forests and range lands, dislocated thousands of people, and burned hundreds of homes and buildings. This has been t

The city of Spokane should remain open to private-public partnership and look to leverage maximum use out of its increasingly valuable property on and near the Spokane River. Specifically, the city's Parks and Recreation Department should continue to

Banner Corp., the Walla Walla-based parent of Banner Bank, has closed its branch in the Northtown Office Building, at 4407 N. Division, just south of NorthTown Mall. Kelly McPhee, Spokane-based vice president of communications and public relations for Ba