Special Report

Tacoma's Multicare offers online health services here

System using billboards to draw local consumers

October 20, 2016

MultiCare Health System, a Tacoma-based provider network, is using billboards here to market health care services that Spokane-area consumers can access online. 'Online healthcare when and where you need it. Visit multicare.ecare.com,â€ says the messa

New digestive center launched in Post Falls

Comprehensive approach is focus at hospital facility

October 20, 2016

Samantha Peone

Northwest Specialty Hospital in Post Falls has opened the Northwest Institute for Digestive Surgery, says Dr. John L. Pennings, founder and director of the institute. Located at 750 N. Syringa, the digestive center occupies about 10,000 square feet and i

Premera Blue Cross adopts new customer-service focus

Big health insurer invests in tech, patient research

October 20, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

With open enrollment periods for health insurance starting next month, consumers once again find themselves navigating the complexities of health care plans. Because of those complexities, Mountlake Terrace, Wash.-based Premera Blue Cross says it has be

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Monitoring students on the move

System tracks, scores activities of fifth graders

October 20, 2016

Mike McLean

Coeur d'Alene-based Kootenai Health is joining Spokane-based Providence Health Care in providing area fifth graders a program that emphasizes the importance of physical activity. In its inaugural year in the program, Kootenai Health is distributing 1,5

Leone & Keeble wins big contract for EWU project

Work on $31 million job slated to start this week

October 6, 2016

Mike McLean

Eastern Washington University has awarded Spokane contractor Leone & Keeble Inc. a $31 million contract to renovate and expand the Pence Union Building. Work there is scheduled to start this week, says Troy Bester, the university's senior project mana

Allergen supplier expands

Art Only

October 6, 2016

Mike McLean

Vandervert Construction cites growth, expanding markets

Total active project values surpass $60 million mark

October 6, 2016

Mike McLean

Vandervert Construction Inc., of Spokane, is seeing strong growth in contract revenue this year inside and outside of the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area, says Andrea Frye, a spokeswoman for the company. Active construction projects include four hotels outs

Wireless chain to open store in Cd'A

Cellular Sales to debut first outlet in Idaho this month

October 6, 2016

Mike McLean

Cellular Sales, a Knoxville, Tenn.-based Verizon Wireless telecommunications dealer, plans to open soon a 2,100-square-foot retail store at the northwest corner of Appleway Avenue and Fourth Street, in north-central Coeur d'Alene. Cellular Sales repres

Lydig CEO says success linked to investing in workers

Average length of tenure at company is a decade

October 6, 2016

Lydig Construction Inc. CEO Larry Swartz says he thinks the number that most effectively speaks to why the company is so successful is reflected in the average tenure of its more than 150 employees in three different cities.

New structure slated at Liberty Lake business park

15,000-square-foot building would have multiple tenants

October 6, 2016

Construction is expected to start soon on a 15,000-square-foot building at Liberty Lake's McKinzie Business Park, says Amanda Tainio, the planning and building services manager for the city of Liberty Lake. 'The project is currently under review, and