It only takes a few seconds after meeting Sue Palmer, owner of Oh! Susannah Furniture Co. Inc., of Spokane, to discover she isnt your typical carpenter.Palmer is a self-professed girly-girl in a predominantly male profession. She struts a

Tis the season to shop, and recent sales figures hold promise that retail businesses here will be booming during the holidays as consumers stuff their stockings to the brim.Taxable sales have been climbing in 2005, and experts are a strong to

Just two years after it opened, Sacred Heart Medical Centers Childrens Hospital, in anticipation of higher volumes of young patients this winter, says its making changes to its general and intermediate pediatric care units to make its more to

In a digital age in which businesses regularly are inundated with information that must be stored and categorized, demands for new larger-capacity equipment and other data-storage resources are rising at a blistering pace.Although many and now

Downtown Toyota/Lexus Inc., of Spokane, says it plans to remodel and more than double the size of its Toyota facility as part of a systemwide Toyota Motor Corp. dealership renovation program.The majority of the work involves extending and a at

Stratford Suites Inn LLC, of Airway Heights, is developing a new extended-stay lodging facility there at an estimated cost of $6 million, and plans to complete the project by next April.The lodging facility will include 15 four-unit structures,

A company owned by longtime Spokane real estate executive Mark Pinch plans to break ground in November on two warehouse buildings in Spokane Valley. A total of four bays in the two buildings will be offered for sale.Each of the one-story will a

Businesses here say theyre scrambling to find ways to offset escalating fuel prices, and some say their livelihoods might soon be running on empty.Although rising fuel prices affect almost everyone, energy-intensive users such as farmers, and

Customized programs and new medicines for the millions of Americans who suffer from dementia-related illnesses are being used here to ease the process of irreversible memory loss, and dementia-care experts are expecting rising demand for those as a

As gas prices skyrocket and the snow season approaches, manufacturers are introducing smaller sports-utility vehicles that allow consumers to spend more time driving in the mountains and less money at the gas pump.Six new midsize SUVs are or is