Coming off a severe snow drought, Inland Northwest ski areas are expecting average snow accumulations for the upcoming seasons, and average would be good enough for them. A few resorts have big projects planned or underway. They include plans to open up

Archer Daniels Midland, the Chicago-based agricultural and commodities conglomerate, is considering expanding storage, milling, and shipping capacity at its mill complex in the industrial portion of east Spokane, preliminary planning and environmental doc

Portland-based Umpqua Holding Corp., the parent company of Umpqua Bank, has based an executive team in Spokane to integrate the best of the cultures of Umpqua Bank and the venerable Spokane-based Sterling Bank, which Umpqua acquired last year.

Coeur d'Alene architecture and design concern Eric Hedlund Design LLC, which does business as EH Design, has seen rapid growth in the last few years, after having come into its own in the wake of the Great Recession, says Eric Hedlund, the company's p

Spokane-based Rockwood Health System has rolled out VirtualHealthNow, an online service that enables patients to obtain primary health care for nonemergency conditions at any time of day via video conference.

Spokane general contractor T.W. Clark Construction LLC has started work on a new $5.2 million medical clinic on the Newport Hospital & Health Services campus, in Newport, Wash., about an hour's drive northeast of Spokane, via U.S 2. The 17,000-square-f

Spokane-based Vandervert Construction Inc. has started work on its largest contract to date-a $32 million Hilton Garden Inn, in Bellevue-and the real estate developer there also is looking to Vandervert to construct 25 smaller WoodSpring Suites hotels