The proportion of unbanked households declined to 7.7 percent last year, down from 8.2 percent in 2011, says the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in its 2013 National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households released last month.

Hart Capital Management Inc., a Spokane-based investment firm, says the combined stock value of 12 publicly traded Inland Northwest companies, as measured in an overall index it compiles, fell 5.7 percent in the third quarter, compared with the year-earli

After a weak start to 2014, the U.S. dollar muscled its way higher this summer, and the gains look as if they may be continuing. Investors from all over have been eagerly jumping into the U.S. markets. The strengthening dollar has been remaking the inves

A Washington state appellate court panel here recently rejected a lawsuit against Spokane's Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital and related parties that was predicated partly on what's called a 'lost chance” malpractice

Patricia Butterfield, dean of Washington State University's College of Nursing, will leave the dean post and return to a faculty role next April. She currently directs nursing education at WSU's campuses in Spokane, Vancouver, Tri-Cities, and Yakima

Washington state's nursing leaders are continuing to make momentous progress toward reaching the national goal of creating a highly educated, diverse nursing workforce that will be better prepared to take care of all people now and in the future.