Columbia Banking System Inc., the Tacoma, Wash.-based parent of Columbia State Bank, has signed an agreement to merge into its operations Intermountain Community Bancorp, the Sandpoint-based company that operates Intermountain Community Bank and Panhandle

Clearwater Paper Corp., of Spokane, announced this afternoon second-quarter net income of $12.5 million, or 61 cents a diluted share, up from $11.7 million, or 52 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter. The company reported $498.8 million in sales

Potlatch Corp., of Spokane, reported this morning second-quarter net income of $16.3 million, or 40 cents a diluted share, down from earnings of $19.2 million, or 47 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. Earnings fell mostly due to a larger income

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital announced this afternoon plans for a $19.2 million expansion and remodel of its adult cardiac intensive care unit. Construction is scheduled to start July 28 and to be completed in spring o

Over the relatively short span of about 25 years, the Riverpoint Campus has evolved into an attractive urban educational setting, a magnet for an expanding number of ambitious future medical professionals, and a major downtown Spokane asset. The future o

Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based provider of electronic manufacturing services, announced this afternoon that it has agreed to acquire CDR Manufacturing Inc., a Louisville, Ky.-based company doing business as Ayrshire Electronics that provides p

Great Falls, Mont.-based Western lifestyle retailer Big R Stores has started work on a $4 million expansion of its Coeur d'Alene store. The expansion project will add 50,000 square feet of floor space to the store at 170 E. Kathleen, nearly tripling it

Innovation takes vision, leadership, and most of all, courage.  It necessitates trying something new and different, even when it's uncomfortable. Spokane has a rich history of fostering such innovation. Twenty years ago, Inland Northwest Health Servic