Spokane Mayor Jim West says he plans to pursue a major reorganization of city government aimed at improving Spokanes economy.The planstelegraphed in his campaign and embraced by his community-based transition teamcall for creating a new,

Sacred Heart Medical Center, which opened a Childrens Hospital in its expanded east tower last summer, now plans to build a pediatric emergency department next to the big medical centers general ER.Separately, the Childrens Hospital has a

Qwest Communications International Inc. says it plans by midyear to bring six engineers to Spokane from its Denver headquarters to help it handle a more aggressive push to provide broadband Internet service here.Over the last few months, Qwest

Those whove tracked Spokanes economy for any time know the term cautiously optimistic all too well. For 2004, you can toss the word cautiously from that phrase. Based on interviews with dozens of experts and observers in the that a

Washington state regulators are considering certificate-of-need rule changes that, among other things, would eliminate the requirement that hospitals must have an open-heart surgery program in order to offer heart-catheterization has some in the as

Spokane-area high-tech entrepreneur Bernard Daines has launched a company here that is breathing life into an underutilized Liberty Lake building as a broadband Internet paradise.The new company, Liberty Lake Internet Exchange LLC, or LLIX for

Jim Schoenleber, a former cop who built Argus Services Inc. here into a regional security-guard powerhouse with more than 1,000 employees and annual revenues topping $20 million, has been forced by health problems to dismantle the says he has and a

Westaff Inc., a big Walnut Creek, Calif.-based staffing and employment services concern, has entered the Spokane-area market.The publicly traded company has opened an office at 15320 E. Marietta thats headed by Anne Rossi, a Westaff manager a

Dave Sanford, an 18-year veteran technician in Sacred Heart Medical Centers cardiac catheterization labs, had been waiting to hear about a tool that could help doctors open up a totally blocked coronary artery without conducting open-heart than a

The seemingly endless rows of shiny aluminum coil are much shorter now. Huge expanses of factory floor are quiet and unlit. The trucks loaded with molten metal that once rumbled from Mead through Hillyard and the Spokane Valley to Trentwood are has