Though notable strides in workplace culture and policy change undoubtedly have improved employment conditions for many women over the last several decades, the impacts of sexism on women are particularly evident in male-dominated fields.

New research shows the use of cannabis among pregnant women is increasing as both medical and recreational marijuana are legalized in more states.

The growing trend of medical clinics entering neighborhoods will continue here in 2020. Big hospitals are still prominent places in the community, but increasingly, medical offices now are in residential neighborhoods, occupying space in mixed-use

Amy Knapton Vega has been executive director of the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery for about 13 years. The nonprofit organization, named for a Spokane two-year-old who died in 1982 due to injuries from child abuse, has been serving children at risk of abuse

Issues and opportunities involving housing and health care top the list of priorities for Spokane-area municipalities and organizations as they prepare to make their cases at the 2020 Washington state legislative session. To bolster the housing market

Northwest Specialty Hospital, in Post Falls, is changing the way many of its patients' spinal surgeries are conducted through the use of a surgical robot navigation platform, says spinal surgeon Dr. Roland Kent.

Faced with a shortage of certified nursing assistants, Providence hospitals in Spokane have created a program they think will satisfy their demand.