The Heart Institute of Spokane and its researchers have filed their first patent application based on basic science research conducted there.The research, which over the past year or so has been led by Dr. Katherine Tuttle, the Heart director of

Cleanup of petroleum-contaminated soil and groundwater at the North Market Street Superfund site is expected to start next year, says Bill Fees, an environmental engineer with the Washington state Department of Ecologys toxics cleanup years of of

The owner of the Wenatchee, Wash., Kia auto dealership has bought the Kia dealership here from Hallmark Hyundai Kia, of Spokane, says Michael Mackey, general sales manager of Wenatchee Kia.Terms of the transaction werent disclosed.Wenatchee

Football players aspiring to be the next Kurt Warner could be playing in Spokane if the owners of the Los Angeles Avengers, an Arena Football League franchise, decide to start a team here.Kevin Demoff, Avengers vice president of business says

United Security Bancorp., of Spokane, is seeking approval from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to merge United Security Bank, of Spokane, with three of its other subsidiary banks to form one Washington state-chartered commercial bank that would

Members of a Canadian investment group that owns a Howard Johnson Inn here are considering buying the Budget Inn, at 110 E. Fourth, from Spokane-based WestCoast Hospitality Corp. and marketing the hotel to families of medical patients who are being

Granite Investments LLC, a Spokane partnership led by prominent developer Dick Vandervert, says it expects to start work next spring on a 30-acre shopping center along the Sunset Highway near Airway Heights.The planned 161,000-square-foot is to

In the course of doubling in size this year, LineSoft Corp., the Spokane-based maker of software for power-line planning and design, has discovered a new market that it believes has the potential to account for tens of millions of dollars in within

COEUR DALENEThings dont change much at Hudsons Hamburgers.Sure, the place has moved a few times, but only by a matter of feet. Oh, and it did add three stools to its counter seating in 1983. Thats about it. Otherwise, Hudsons, in

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories Inc. (PAML), the Spokane-based regional medical laboratory that performs large numbers of tests on bodily fluids, plans to move its Spokane operations next year from two locations in the Spokane Valley to a