Jan. 31 / Potlatch posts $1.5 million lossPotlatch Corp., of Spokane, reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $1.5 million, or 4 cents a diluted common share, down from net income of $9.4 million, or 22 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter.

Hospitals and health care organizations will need more than a couple of aspirin to ready themselves for a likely increase in data security headaches this year, suggests the sponsor of a study on the topic.Industry experts representing health to

The majority of executives worldwide appear to be confident in the effectiveness of their organizations' information security practices, though other responses in an international study suggest that some security capabilities have been since 2008.

After nearly a three-year process, signcryption has been formally recognized as an international standard by the International Organization of Standardization (ISO). University of North Carolina Charlotte Professor Yuliang Zheng, who works in of

Spokane-area law enforcement veterans Tim Walters and Gary Gasseling have formed a professional training company here called Training to Survive that will assist clients in how to prevent, respond to, and recover from workplace violence. "There

Ibex Flooring LLC, a commercial flooring supplier here, has bought a single-story, 11,700-square-foot building at 2925 N. Martin and plans to move there later this month from leased space at 702 N. Helena. Chris Bell, of NAI Black, handled the a a

MDM Construction Inc., of Hayden, Idaho, has started work on a $2.1 million project to build a large water reservoir and transmission main pipe for the city of Airway Heights to allow for future development in the West Plains city.Jason Gonwick,

Glenn Crellin, who until recently was the director of the Washington Center for Real Estate Research, at Washington State University, has accepted a staff position at the University of Washington and has moved his research operations to the West a