A Spokane Valley physician specializes in an alternative therapy that he says helps relieve some common forms of joint and muscle pain.

Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, appears to have structural work mostly completed for the Spokane Teaching Health Center's $15 million University District Health Clinic, which is located at the southeast edge of the Washington State University Spoka

Just over a year old, Providence Health Care's occupational medicine program has grown quickly, with plans to expand next spring, adding a third location from which to provide its services.

Washington Healthplanfinder, the online health insurance marketplace operated by the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, recently launched its third open enrollment period, which runs from Nov. 1 through Jan. 31, and some observers say they expect the num