The Washington state Supreme Court has found in a 5-4 ruling that Providence Health Care improperly terminated an employee here under provisions of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.Dissenting Supreme Court justices contended that the of

Spokane Teachers Credit Union, of Liberty Lake, has reported 2012 net income of $21.8 million, up 14 percent compared with income of $19.1 million in 2011. Bill Before, STCU's chief financial officer, says a $1.6 million decrease in the credit a

Northwest Farm Credit Services, the big Spokane-based agricultural lender and crop insurance provider, has reported record net income of $187.3 million for 2012, up from prior-year earnings of $159.2 million, which also were a record.The loan by

Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp., of Coeur d'Alene, says it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Orko Silver Corp., of Vancouver, British Columbia, in a transaction that's valued at about $350 million and expected to close in in is

Spokane Valley-based manufacturer True Seals LLC, operating under the tutelage of former Nott-Atwater Co. President Jim Hemingway, is looking to fill a void created when that company's longtime manufacturing facility here shut down more than a year