A 6-year-old Millwood business called Commercial Lending Northwest Inc., which is owned and staffed by just one person, books an average of $30 million a year in loans. The company, which often serves businesses that are struggling to repay has

Washington state reimbursed nursing homes $100 million less than what it cost them in 2003 to care for elderly Medicaid patients, who account for more than two-thirds of their residents, the nursing home industry claims.By reimbursing nursing a

Spokane Rock Products Inc. has submitted the low bid for what is now a $3.4 million project to convert a busy, eight-block stretch of Freya and Thor streets on either side of Interstate 90 into a one-way couplet. Work on the project is expected

A one and a half mile stretch of Hayford Road between U.S. 2 and the Spokane Raceway Park entrance is scheduled to be widened from two lanes to five this summer.With all the truck traffic and development along that road, there is no way we to

A trend toward women using oral contraceptives more frequently to reduce their number of menstrual cycles dramatically is gaining momentum, say health professionals here and nationally. By staying on birth control pills continuously, rather one

Premier Manufacturing Inc., a Spokane Valley precision sheet-metal fabricator, has absorbed I-90 Express Finishing Inc., an affiliated powder-coating concern, and is moving the two operations into the former Ice World building, in Liberty corporate

Spokane County expects to start work this spring on a multiyear, $35.6 million project to widen and reconfigure the heavily used Bigelow Gulch Road route that serves as a bypass between Spokanes North Side and the Valley.That about 8.5-mile a

When sisters Kim Stone, of Spokane, and Melissa Earle, of Sarasota, Fla., decided to go into business together they had some issues to resolve.Stone refused to move to Sarasota, and Earle refused to move to Spokane, so the compromise solution &

When Louis Davenport opened his palatial new hotel in downtown Spokane in 1914, he played a part in breathing new life into the city. Walt and Karen Worthys reopening of the Davenport Hotel in 2002 appears to have given Spokane a similar evidence

Isothermal Systems Research Inc., a Liberty Lake maker of cooling technologies for electronic components, says it expects to employ as many as 1,000 people within the next five years as it broadens its focus from being mostly a defense contractor a