As health-care costs eat up a growing share of employers budgets, a relatively new strategy for controlling those costsinvolving the use of consumer-directed health plans, or CDHPsis gaining popularity.In a national survey of health plans

Potlatch Corp., the big Spokane-based forest products company, has leased two floors of the Wells Fargo Center downtown and is moving its corporate headquarters there from a smaller space to make room for 25 key managers in its finance group who of

A Kootenai County transportation planning organizations recent decision to recommend a route for a proposed expressway that would divert traffic off of the highly used stretch of U.S. 95 north of Interstate 90 has triggered land-use planning for

The resurgence of Hecla Mining Co.s venerable Lucky Friday mine near Mullan, Idaho, might seem remarkable enough, given recent strong production gains, plummeting cash costs, and a surge in hiring there. That rebirth, however, would pale in to if

Kidney dialysis centers are commonplace today, but they werent in 1962, when three pioneering Spokane physicians opened here the first U.S. dialysis center outside of a research setting that treated chronic kidney disease.The three doctors, a

Longtime Washington State University biochemistry professor Martin L. Pall and his wife were forced to cut short a visit to Italy 10 years ago when Pall developed a bad case of shingles, a viral infection that causes rash and extreme pain.I a

Spokane surgeon has begun performing cancer-related hysterectomies here using a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure that has been used in non-cancer-related hysterectomies and a host of other surgeries for years.The surgeon, Dr. Melanie a

For George Gee Automotive Group, bringing a Porsche dealership to Spokane was just one more way to prevent longtime customers from going elsewhere for their vehicle purchases.If weve sold someone cars for 15 or 20 years, we dont want them

Its shaping up to be a midsize year in the auto world. A number of automakers are rolling out new, sportier, or more luxurious versions of their midsize sedans and coupes, and introducing hybrids in the larger vehicle styles to offer improved gas

Mid-size businesses, or tweeners, that have both storefront and Internet operations and a substantial amount of gross sales, stand to be hit hard by compliance burdens in a new effort by Washington state to boost tax collections and level the a