A managed-service organization formed three years ago to help small orthopedic practices in Spokane survive in a managed-care marketplace has taken on a new name and is studying the idea of opening its own surgery center here.The organization, a

Canadian eye surgery clinics are invading the Spokane market with advertisements aimed at luring across the U.S-Canada border patients who are seeking elective, laser vision-correction surgery.In a bid for patients in an area of medicine thats

The federal government has denied the city of Spokanes application for designation as an empowerment zone.Started in 1993, the empowerment zone program offers qualifying communities $100 million in federal grants over 10 years, and tax breaks

Coldwater Creek Inc., the Sandpoint, Idaho-based direct-mail retailer, has pulled out of the Japanese market after testing it for about two years. The company, tucked away in North Idahos Selkirk Range, sells gifts, clothing, and home furnishings

Cogentrix Energy Inc., a Charlotte, N.C.-based power producer, will serve as its own general contractor on construction of a $100 million power plant it is developing in Rathdrum, Idaho, with Avista Power Inc., of Spokane. The company will strive

Steve Talbotts Spokane Valley studio shows off his stained glass windows, glass door panels sandblasted with elaborate designs, and etched tabletopsbut the name of his business, Artistic Glass, only begins to tell his story.Over more than a

When a resolution calling for formation of a task force to study a single-payer health-care system surfaced at the 1998 annual meeting of the Washington State Medical Association, many felt it would be promptly rejected.Instead, the body, the of

By Of the Journal of BusinessVandervert Construction Inc., of Spokane, has begun work on a 23,000-square-foot building in the Spokane Valley for F.O. Berg Co., where that Spokane-based company will focus on manufacturing industrial fabric new

As consultants continue work on a master plan to transform the north bank of the Spokane River between Howard and Washington streets for educational, recreational, and sports uses, public land holdings there could be on the verge of increasing.A

Community Colleges of Spokanes board of trustees has given approval for design work for both an expansion of the Spokane Community College student center and an addition to the fitness center at Spokane Falls Community College. If both projects a