As New Jersey businesses struggled to recover from Superstorm Sandy in late 2012, Mark Jacobus says he felt motivated to launch a company to help businesses and organizations secure programs and systems to ensure they can rely on backup power when the gri

Nancy Connors still periodically laughs at herself when she thinks about the fact that not only does she own a security business, but she's been running it for just a little more than 20 years now. Connors says she's quiet and shy by nature and never

Now at the start of its 11th year of operations, Spokane-based information technology company Strategic Integrators Inc. continues to grow, evolving to meet the needs of its clients. The company, which started as Strategic Hardware LLC, changed its name

The director of Healing Rooms Ministries, in Spokane, says the organization has partnered with another nonprofit and nutritionists to create an herbal supplement they believe has its foundational roots in the diet God created for humankind.

A Spokane architect is among local pioneers of an energy-saving design and construction standard known as passive house. Sam Rodell, a longtime architect, has been certified for three years as a passive-house consultant through Chicago-based Passive Hous

A Spokane Regional Health District program helps hundreds of women in Eastern Washington who qualify for free screenings to detect whether they have breast, cervical, or colon cancer. The district has overseen what's now called the Breast, Cervical and

New business owner Julia Carlson says most adults tend to take sleep for granted, right up until we're suddenly not getting any. Carlson would know, as it was her own struggle with sleeplessness that recently prompted her to change her career path. Her

A month before actress Carrie Fisher died due to complications from a heart attack, a staff writer for Great Britain's daily newspaper, The Guardian, said in an article that his in-person interview with Fisher had to be canceled and had to be done by p