Puget Sound business and health officials have spent considerable time and energy over the last year preparing jointly for a possible new pandemic flu, but such efforts are just now getting off the ground here, and Spokane-area businesses appear to

Close your eyes and it could be the high-tech glory days of 2000. Telect Inc. CEO Wayne Williams is talking about the challenges of getting product out the door fast enough to meet demand. Desperate customers are calling to say theyd pay two

Evergreen Fountains LLC, a company headed by brothers Greg and Prokey Arger, plans to develop a 115-unit retirement complex, to be called Evergreen Fountains Senior Living Community, along Evergreen Road, in Spokane Valley.The Argers say the of

A Spokane company led by real estate executive Bill Butler has completed its purchase of the eight-story, former Wells Fargo Bank Building downtown and has started work on a $1 million-plus renovation project there.The company, Riverside 522 up

Kootenai Medical Center, in Coeur dAlene, projects in its recently completed master campus plan that it will spend as much as $260 million over the next 20 years to expand and renovate its facilities, although that figure is on the high end of in

Some years back, Dr. Stacie Bering made a heartbreaking visit to a hospital to see a friend who was dying of cancer. It wasnt just the friends terminal condition that made Bering feel sad; it was that he was all alone, with nurses scurrying

Holy Family Hospital says its set to begin work on a big expansion and renovation project that will include construction of a centralized ambulatory-services area and a four-story medical-office building, part of which will be developed hospital

Spokane golfers might already be well grounded in decorating their golf cars with accessories ranging from beverage coolers and chrome wheels to portable heaters and custom upholstery, but the newest wrinkle in golf-car gadgetry comes from above.

If at some point this season, all of the Spokane-Coeur dAlene area golf courses are busy and tee times are elusive, it might be time to take Big Bertha for a short drive, along with the rest of your clubs.More than 20 golf courses are located

A switch from sandwiches to fruit might not seem like a big change for most people, but for Ken and Crystal Lamoreaux, it meant a long-sought change from being employees to being employers.Undaunted by their inability to buy a Subway restaurant