Fred Meyer Stores Inc. is investing $22 million to convert its four Spokane-Coeurd'Alene area stores into a new nationwide model for its parent company, Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., and Kroger's family of superstore brands. The biggest changes will b

Spokane-based Cancer Care Northwest, a physician-owned oncology practice, has introduced to the Inland Northwest what its physicians tout as a groundbreaking new technology that helps extend the lives of patients diagnosed with certain malignant brain tum

Organizers of Walk Bike Bus Spokane, an alternative transportation advocacy program, are boasting significant progress in reducing short drive trips within the program's pilot areas in the Garland and South Perry neighborhoods. The program encourages r

Greenstone Corp., the Liberty Lake-based developer of the Kendall Yards development northwest of downtown Spokane, plans to begin construction this fall on a pair of two-tenant retail buildings. The structures, tentatively called Nettleton Corners, are

The manager of the electric utility that would supply the recently announced silicon smelter planned in Usk, Wash., 50 miles north of Spokane, is anxious to know more about the potential big-power customer, Edmonton, Alberta-based HiTest Sand Inc. Colin

Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest will open a new thrift store in northwest Spokane and will move its Post Falls store to a $3 million facility to be constructed there, says Clark Brekke, president of the Spokane-based nonprofit. In all, Goodwi