Deaconess Medical Center and Shriners Hospital for Children-Spokane are studying the idea of creating a joint childrens hospital, although little is being said publicly about what such a venture would entail.We have been in preliminary with

The number of foreclosure actions filed in Spokane County last year jumped for the fifth straight year and hit 1,000 for the first timewell above the last documented peak of 853 foreclosures recorded in 1988.Meanwhile, across the border, saw a

The Spokane office of Hartford, Conn.-based Travelers Property Casualty Corp. wont reach earlier projections that it would employ 500 workers here by the end of 2000, but has added two new servicesand nearly 75 workersduring the last 12 234 a

The bright wares of 4-Seasons Lighted Yard Displays, a small Garfield, Wash.-based business that peddles its yard decorations here annually at trade shows, recently appeared on Japanese television.Amy DeGon, who owns 4-Seasons with her husband,

Yamana Resources Inc., of Spokane, has agreed to buy Platero Resources Inc., a Yukon Territory-based exploration company with potential mining properties located near Yamanas Martha Mine and Martinetas property in Santa Cruz province in which is

Ambassadors International Inc., the Spokane-based specialty travel business, says it has added about 50 people here during the last 12 months.Jeffrey Thomas, Ambassadors executive vice president and chief financial officer, says that the which

The Heart Institute of Spokane and its researchers have filed their first patent application based on basic science research conducted there.The research, which over the past year or so has been led by Dr. Katherine Tuttle, the Heart director of

A new suitor is trying to team up with Washington states Division of Archives and Records Management to develop the long-proposed Eastern Regional Archives facility, and wants to see the structure built in or near downtown Spokane.The new is a

United Security Bancorp., of Spokane, is seeking approval from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to merge United Security Bank, of Spokane, with three of its other subsidiary banks to form one Washington state-chartered commercial bank that would

Members of a Canadian investment group that owns a Howard Johnson Inn here are considering buying the Budget Inn, at 110 E. Fourth, from Spokane-based WestCoast Hospitality Corp. and marketing the hotel to families of medical patients who are being