When Joanie Lamm and her husband Jim, moved to Chattaroy, Wash., from Las Vegas to settle into semi-retirement, then bought two Belgian horses, she never dreamed she eventually would be feeding 25 pounds of hay a day to each of their 18 draft Lamms

The Spokane City Council is considering a controversial new taxi-cab monitoring system that would require cab owners to buy permits, called medallions, to operate legally within the city limits.Councilman Bob Apple says the medallion method the

Wind Wireless Inc. and Cutting Edge Communications Inc., both of Spokane, have teamed up to launch free wireless Internet service in the downtown area.Winds chief technical officer, Bob Kirkpatrick, says the high-speed, wireless-fidelity, or

Allegra Print & Imaging, formed last month through the merger of two Coeur dAlene printing businesses, says it plans to break ground on an estimated $1.6 million printing plant in Coeur dAlene by next fall.The planned 14,000-square-foot is

When ambulance workers in Yakima responded to a call to adjust a females internal cardiac defibrillator, they expected to see a 70-year-old woman. Instead, they found 7-year-old Hali Hentze.The device was implanted when Hali underwent surgery

Five Spokane-area businesses have earned spots on a list of the Fastest-Growing Public Companies based in Washington state published last month by Seattles Puget Sound Business Journal.Eight Spokane-area companies also made the Puget list

Jones & Mitchell Inc., a longtime Spokane insurance brokerage, says it has sold its assets to Missoula, Mont.-based Western States Insurance Inc.The Spokane brokerage, located at 123 E. Second, now is operating as a branch office of the Montana