Last month, researchers reported that breast cancer incidence rates in the U.S. fell dramatically between August 2002 and December 2003. Some have speculated the drop occurred because millions of women had stopped hormone treatments after a large a

Osteoporosis sufferers are benefiting from several new drugs that have come on the market in recent years and can look forward to the arrival of a number of new drug treatments, but despite such advances, the battle for better bone health is far in

Liberty Lake-based Gee Automotive Group says it has expanded to Western Washington through the purchase last week of the assets of the Huling Bros. Auto Center dealership in West Seattle.The acquisition, in which Gee Automotive and Scottsdale,

Everybody knows that Post Falls has been booming, but just how much has the once-sleepy North Idaho city grown this decade?Regional economist Kathryn Tacke set out to answer that question in an essay published in the Idaho state Department of &

Health-plan costs for Spokane-area businesses, which softened a bit last year, will be mostly in the single-digit to low-double-digit range again this year. Representatives of health plans here warn, though, that the lower rate hikes dont mean in

The financial services sector here has grown robustly in the last few years, and Spokane-area bankers say theyre going to be challenged to match this years stellar growth in 2007.This has been three of the best years weve seen, and now

Retail sales are expected to rise sharply again in 2007, though perhaps not quite to the extent they did this year, industry observers here say.Spokane County and the cities of Spokane and Spokane Valley all have budgeted for modest gains in is

Employment in Spokane Countywhich so far this year has shot up by more than 10,000 jobsis expected to grow at a slower clip in 2007, though its still projected to outpace the national average, experts here say.Were not expecting the

When roughly 60,000 Avista Utilities customers lost power last week during a violent wind storm, the Spokane companys new high-tech, power-outage reporting system, which it developed over several years at a cost of $10 million, got its biggest to

Plants are pretty common gifts for celebrating special occasions or expressing certain sentiments, but a Spokane company has taken the idea a step further by developing plants that display a printed message as they sprout.The company, Miracle a