Prominent Spokane developer Harlan Douglass longtime plan to build a big residential project in Spokanes Indian Trail neighborhood has been approved by the citys hearing examiner. Called Windhaven, the project would include 298 homes and

As senior citizens and policy experts continue to debate the merits of prescription-drug coverage under new Medicare-reform legislation signed into law this week, for most hospitals, the laws benefit is clearthey get more money to care for in

Spokane-based Sterling Savings Bank plans to hire about 100 people in coming weeks to work in its headquarters here, and is negotiating to lease about 30,000 square feet of additional space downtown to help accommodate that growth.The expansion

Construction is expected to begin in March on an $11.9 million building at North Idaho College, in Coeur dAlene, that will house the schools nursing, health-professions, and natural-science programs. The new structure is expected to help in

Actor Dennis Franzbetter known to some as Detective Andy Sipowicz, of the television drama NYPD Blueis the apparent buyer of 100 acres of property on Coeur dAlene Lakes Kidd Island Bay. Franz is said to have bought the property from USA

Longtime Spokane bank executive John Wagner has been named president of Spokane Valley-based Farmers & Merchants Bank, where hes charged with expanding the bank aggressively. Wagner, 53, retired last month as president of Bank of Americas

Coeur dAlene Mines Corp. says it will increase its mining activity in Idahos Silver Valley if exploration currently under way there yields positive results.The Coeur dAlene-based company said in its third-quarter earnings release that it

POST FALLSWhen Bob Templin decided to build a hotel and resort on the banks of the Spokane River here in the mid-1980s, Post Falls was a bedroom community with so little happening that its City Hall was open just three days a week. On the of

As senior citizens and policy experts continue to debate the merits of prescription-drug coverage under new Medicare-reform legislation signed into law this week, for most hospitals, the laws benefit is clearthey get more money to care for in

Columbia Primary Care, of Spokane, is a lot like the primary-care physicians that are its membersit takes care of the basics. The organization has 50 physician members who pay a monthly fee to Columbia Primary Care to negotiate reimbursement