TinaMarie Bell can really cut a rugliterally. On a typical day, Bell isnt gliding across dance floors, but rather is busy cutting pieces of carpet and fashioning them into rugs she has designed for homes, businesses, and vehicles.Bell owns

Sylvan Furniture Co., a 62-year-old family-owned Spokane business, is closing its doors, according to a flyer distributed by the company. The flyer, advertising a five-day liquidation sale held earlier this month, says the business lost its at

Extendicare Health Services Inc., of Milwaukee, a large operator of long-term care facilities in the U.S., including three here, says it hopes to open a 120-bed, $14 million skilled-nursing center on the South Hill.The Milwaukee-based company a

Unico Properties LLC, a Seattle-based real estate investment and operating company, says it has bought the 20-story Bank of America Financial Center in downtown Spokane, and plans to spend millions of dollars on improvements to it.Unico didnt

Olympic Foods Inc., a 41-year-old Spokane company, says it has signed a letter of intent to sell its assets to Johanna Foods Inc., a privately owned manufacturer of chilled juices and beverages based in Flemington, N.J.Terms of the tentative a

A longtime Spokane garment manufacturer that now employs just one-fifth of the 450 workers it once did says it has righted itself against tall odds and tough overseas competition and again is on solid financial ground.Joe Doohan, president of a

Amica Mutual Insurance Co. says it plans to move its 56-employee service center here to larger quarters and to add 23 employees at the center by June.The big Lincoln, R.I.-based insurer has leased about 12,000 square feet of office space at E.

Two envisioned West Plains developments, one just proposed and the other just getting under way, would add 843 residences there, further stoking activity in a once-stagnant area where new housing starts have been heating up recently.Foursquare

Kootenai Medical Center, of Coeur dAlene, says it and two dozen of its fellow public hospitals in Idaho are asking the Idaho Legislature for help in the wake of a recent state Supreme Court ruling that makes it more difficult for such hospitals a

Family Home Care Corp., a Spokane Valley-based home health-care provider, is seeking approval from Washington state to provide hospice care in Spokane County.Michael Nowling, Family Home Cares president and CEO, says that adding such services