Thanks to improved conditions for agriculture in the Pacific Northwest, Northwest Farm Credit Services posted much higher earnings of $30.8 million in the third quarter, up 48 percent from $20.8 million in the year-earlier period.Through the to

A year after Cancer Care Northwest began offering stem-cell therapy to cancer patients to determine the size of the market here for the treatment, the Spokane oncology practice has decided to offer the procedure on a permanent basis.In the last

Avista Utilities is offering a credit of up to $2,000 a year to ratepayers in Washington that produce electricity with qualifying wind, solar, or anaerobic digester generating systems.Through the program, the company will give credits of 12 to

Avista Corp. has increased its common stock dividend yet again and seems intent on continuing to boost that key indicator of the companys financial health.The companys board of directors declared on Aug. 16 a quarterly dividend of 14.5 a 15

Avista Advantage, once a nonperforming stepchild in Avista Corp.s family of daughter companies, is contributing ever more impressive sums to its parents earnings, is enjoying a prolonged growth surge, and has taken on a new name.The which a

Avista Corp. says its sale of claims against Enron Corp. and certain affiliates contributed to the Spokane companys earnings in the first half of 2006, which it reported Aug. 2.Malyn Malquist, the companys senior vice president and chief of

The backers of the proposed Institute for Systems Medicine here are weighing the idea of asking the state of Washington to help fund the institute with sales and use tax money thats now collected here and sent to Olympia.To tap such a funding

The Spokane-area economy has added more jobs in the first five months of 2006 than it did during the year-earlier period, when it also turned in a strong performance.An average of 6,240 more people were employed in nonagricultural wage and here

Avista Corp., renamed seven years ago, is looking for a new name again.The 117-year-old Spokane company, which originated as Washington Water Power Co., will change its name as part of its transition to a holding company structure, says Jessie

Intense pressure to get products to market prompted Eastern Washington businesses to rank unclogging Puget Sound highways as a close secondbehind avalanche-caused delays at Snoqualmie Passin their transportation-improvement priorities in a last