Global Credit Union, of Spokane, has opened its first branch in the Tri-Cities and plans to open its second branch there in October.Global opened a branch office in Pasco on June 18, inside a new Yokes Washington Foods Inc. supermarket, says

Two of Spokanes largest medical clinics, the Rockwood Clinic and Cancer Care Northwest, have put on hold a pair of separate expansion projects here because of uncertainty about Medicare reimbursements for chemotherapy drugs.That uncertainty a

Wells Fargo Banks new top executive here says hes working to expand the San Francisco-based banks Spokane-area branch system and has been adding personnel here.Don Young, Wells Fargos new Spokane-based community bank president, says he

Health-care providers here, struggling to cope with relentless cost increases, receive far lower Medicare reimbursements for the same procedures and services than their counterparts in other areas of the U.S., says Tom Fritz, CEO of Inland Health a

Avista Advantage, the Avista Corp. subsidiary that manages utility bills for businesses with multiple sites, slashed its losses by 60 percent last year and now expects it might break even by the middle of this year.The operation, which has its

Western Rail Inc., of Spokane, has bought 23 acres of land in Airway Heights on the north side of McFarlane Road just west of Hayford Road and will move its locomotive sales, leasing, and parts business there.The 19-year-old company, which has

Almost every Spokane- and Coeur dAlene-based bank has reported record profits for 2002, the second year in a row in which banks in this area have produced glittering returns.The banks say they were helped by prevailing low interest rates rate

The rumbling effects of the Federal Reserves interest-rate reductions are changing the landscape for Spokane-area lenders.As the Feds rate cuts in 2000 and 2001 have pushed housing starts to record levels, theyve fueled demand for and you

Sterling Savings Bank, of Spokane, has opened a corporate-banking office in downtown Seattle, employs three staff members there now, and expects to employ eight by the end of the year as it strives to plumb the market in the center of Washingtons

Before larger institutions vacuumed up Seafirst Bank and Rainier National Bank in the frenzied industry consolidation several years ago, the two banks commanded two-thirds of the lucrative mid- to upper-market commercial-banking business in and as