The stock of Spokane-based Ambassadors Group Inc. has been upgraded to a buy by D.A. Davidson & Co., the Great Falls, Mont.-based regional stock brokerage, based on Ambassadors strong recent earnings report.Last week, the Spokane travel a

Its been good news, bad news for Post Falls medical-device maker Lifestream Technologies Inc. lately.Last month, the small maker of consumer cholesterol monitors announced that pharmacy giant Walgreen Co. had agreed to sell its devices at all

Associated Industries of the Inland Northwest has named building-industry executive Jim DeWalt as its new president and CEO.Associated Industries, a Spokane-based nonprofit employers group, had been looking for a new CEO since February, when J.

It was a very good year in 2003 to be an executive of a publicly traded company.Improved share prices and stronger corporate earnings triggered hefty raises for many such executives here, and more of them saw the improved market as a good time

Spokanes economy has rebounded to nearly where it was before the swoon that began in 2001, according to the most recent Economic Activity Index compiled by Washington State University professor Don Epley.That index estimates growth in power a

Spokane ophthalmologist Dr. David Cohen has begun offering a procedure that uses radio waves to correct the near-vision deterioration that everyone over the age of 40 eventually suffers.Using a patented technology called Conductive which was by

When the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute breaks ground this summer on its planned technology building near the rail lines just east of downtown, it will be breathing new life into a long-neglected area seen as having vast

AmericanWest Bancorp., the Spokane-based parent of AmericanWest Bank, posted solid gains in deposits and loans last year and saw its assets crest the $1 billion mark.Separately, AmericanWest plans this year to open a branch office in Post to a

Elmers Restaurants Inc., a Portland, Ore.-based chain with about 50 locations in five Western states, says it would like to open three of its family-style restaurants in the Spokane area and perhaps a second outlet in Kootenai County.A of the

For Deke Cloyd, every picture does tell a story.Hes got a tale for each photograph that hangs from the walls of the quirky space he leases in the largely vacant Music City building in downtown Spokane. If youve got the time, hell bend ear