Think moving to a retirement community is going to be just like moving from one house to another?Think again.The retirement-home industry has a set of lease arrangements and fee structures unlike most others, and the system can be confusing

Months after a small investor group bought the assets of FirstPharma and rescued the specialty pharmaceutical compounding operation from the brink of closure, the salvaged startup now is growing at an accelerated clip.Operating now as Pharmacy,

Much as its products detect bacteria and microbes in substances, GenPrime Inc. has pinpointed a number of U.S. and foreign markets to which it can apply its technologies.Unlike some of the bacteria, markets targeted by the 7-year-old Spokane To

Crews have erected about 75 percent of the 411 steel towers needed for a $175 million, 84-mile high-voltage power line between Grand Coulee Dam and the Bell Substation, near Mead, and the project will become much more visible to Spokane-area which

Longtime Spokane beverage distributor B&B Distributors Inc. has expanded its distribution area in Washington and North Idaho and has changed its name to King Beverage Inc.In the expansion, King Beverage bought exclusive distribution rights for

Hotel room-tax revenues jumped sharply in Spokane County through the first five months of this year, and that and other indicators have tourism officials hoping that the visitor industry will snap all the way back this year from the losses it after

Its been good news, bad news for Post Falls medical-device maker Lifestream Technologies Inc. lately.Last month, the small maker of consumer cholesterol monitors announced that pharmacy giant Walgreen Co. had agreed to sell its devices at all

Rings & Things, the Spokane-based bead and jewelry-component wholesaler, plans to move to a building east of downtown that its owners recently bought from Pacific Wholesale Florist Inc.The 31-year-old wholesaler plans to remodel the building at

A family-entertainment business owner and a group of other Northwest investors are planning to develop a 90-room Holiday Inn Express hotel in Hayden, Idaho, this summer.The $7 million-to-$10 million project is expected to start next month and a

Cory Colvin, founder of the Spokane electrical contracting company Colvico Inc., is trying to reverse the sale of the company to a publicly-traded corporation that he contends withheld important information about its own operation.Enviro-Energy