Kootenai Medical Center plans to start work on a $3.4 million expansion of its emergency department and its laboratory this month.The size of the hospitals emergency department will double and its lab space will increase by about 30 percent,

A Spokane family has bought Halletts Chocolate Factory, a longtime candy manufacturer here that closed its doors in late spring, and has reopened the business with help from its original owners.The Spokane family, Patty Kane and her Kitty, to

A Portland-based company that co-developed the 104-unit Deer Run at Northpointe apartment project on Spokanes North Side two years ago now plans to build another 108 apartment units next door in an $8.8 million project.The company, PacifiCap

Kevin Lessard admits that sometimes its easier to correct troubled canines than his own young children.He can relate to dogs. He understands how they think, act, and communicate. His two high-energy boys, well, thats another the owner of a

Acceptance Capital Mortgage Corp., a young Spokane Valley-based mortgage company that arranges mostly residential loans, is growing by leaps and bounds through a nationwide rapid expansion strategy.The 2-year-old company, which already has 70 a

Agricultural commodities in Eastern Washington generally will fetch slightly higher prices this year than last, and farmers have had good weather, improved yields, and relatively solid market demand, say those in the industry.Wheat remains the

Family Home Care Corp., a Spokane home health-care provider, says its transition to a for-profit company from a unit of a nonprofit hospital operator has gone well, and the venture now is adding new services and expects to hire additional company a

Smart & Final Inc., a Los Angeles-based cash-and-carry chain, is opening a second United Grocers Cash & Carry warehouse store in the Spokane area.The planned 21,000-square-foot store will be located at 211 S. McKinnon, in Spokane Valley, and is

Yakima-based Maid OClover Corp., has sold all of its 19 convenience stores, including nine in the Spokane area, for $12 million in transactions approved in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, says its CEO, Jeff Loudon. Were out of the business, Of a

Cheney Care Center Association, which operates a retirement campus in Cheney that includes skilled-nursing and assisted-living facilities, has begun work on an independent-living complex there.The $3.5 million project, which got under way last