Two Spokane-area wineries are establishing new presences near the city center.Barrister Winery has moved to a three-story building near downtown, at 1213 W. Railroad, and Grande Ronde Cellars has leased 3,000 square feet of space in the Freeman

A growing number of health-care providers here are using automated devices that recover and reinfuse blood lost by patients during surgeries.Dr. Douglas McInnis, an orthopedic surgeon at Kootenai Medical Center, one of the latest hospitals to 5

Extreme Machine 2000 Inc., a Leavenworth, Wash.-based company, appears to have suspended or scrapped plans to open a facility here to manufacture all-terrain amphibious vehicles. The startup company and the Spokane Area Economic Development in

Though Allen Tower has helped design a backyard owned by a well-known businessman here and has provided plant materials to an eminent botanical garden in Colorado, he doesnt hanker for recognition.Tower, who owns Spokane-based Tower Perennial

Dental insurance, though perhaps not deemed as essential as medical insurance, offers a number of perks that merit its consideration as a valuable benefit, employers and insurance brokers here say.Doug Toone, owner of Spokane-based Jewelry says

Lakeshore Investment Corp., of Seattle, says it plans to develop a roughly $1.8 million retail center, named Whitworth Square, near the southeast corner of Division Street and Hawthorne Road east of Whitworth College.To make way for the center,

The Spokane Area Economic Development Council plans within the next few months to discuss with its major funding partners raising additional money it says it needs to implement a consultants strategy recommendations. The EDC had hired Audrey

As fuel prices continue to climb across the U.S., trucking and delivery companies here are shifting the load of additional expense onto their customers through fuel surcharges to help offset their costs.The rising fuel prices are pinching and a

State Farm Insurance Co., of Bloomington, Ill., is consolidating its Spokane-area and Coeur dAlene automobile and homeowners insurance claims offices by moving them to a building at the Iron Bridge Corporate Campus here.State Farm will 60 a

The Spokane County Medical Society has been discussing with the Seattle-based University of Washington School of Medicine ways in which the school could expand education opportunities here.Dr. Don Cubberley, the societys president, says the a