A three-day innovation boot camp designed to help businesses create, communicate, and commercialize profitable ideas is scheduled for April 4-6 in Spokane.The intensive program, called the Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute, will be by

Two health care conferences with the joint title Retrofitting For Reform are scheduled to convene in Spokane next week. A total of about 300 participants from Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Alaska are expected to attend the Northwest will

Sandpoint-based Intermountain Community Bancorp, which operates Panhandle State Bank and Intermountain Community Bank, posted a full-year 2010 net loss of $33.5 million, or $3.99 per common share, compared with a net loss of $23.6 million, or $2.82

Coeur d'Alene-based Idaho Independent Bank has reported a net loss of $5.7 million, or 89 cents a diluted share, for 2010, down from a loss of $6.7 million, or $1.06 per diluted share, in 2009. The 2010 loss reflects the posting of a $3.1 tax a

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, says it posted net income of just over $1.1 million last year, up about $92,000 from 2009, and had strong increases in deposits and assets, but a decline in loans, similar to what many other banks here M. Horton, CEO, of

Numerica Credit Union, of Spokane, says it more than doubled its earnings in 2010 compared with the year earlier, with increases in its deposits, loans, and assets.The credit union reported 2010 net income of $11.3 million, a 249 percent from it

Spokane Teachers Credit Union says it posted net income of $16.2 million in 2010, up nearly double from $9.1 million in 2009, and also had decent gains in loans and deposits, despite the continuing economic slump.The credit union—Spokane's

Despite a U.S. economic recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nearly half of individual investors trusted financial-services companies less in 2010 than the previous year. Edelman's second annual Trust in U.S. Financial Services that