Columbia Bank, of Tacoma, plans to move its Spokane regional office and downtown branch into the historic Fernwell Building in mid-June.The bank, which acquired eight Bank of Whitman branches last year when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. of

For Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, fundraising has become much more than selling cookies. Cookie sales still account for a significant portion of the Spokane-based organization's revenues, but it has increased its donor in

As it turns out, what happens on Facebook doesn't always stay on Facebook. An emerging trend in pre-employment screening involves what some are calling social media checks, where as part of a background check, an investigating company will look

As it turns out, what happens on Facebook doesn't always stay on Facebook. An emerging trend in pre-employment screening involves what some are calling social media checks, where as part of a background check, an investigating company will look

In 2007, Spokane neurological surgeon Dr. Dean Martz approached Jon Copeland, CEO of Inland Imaging Business Associates LLC, and asked if Inland Imaging could find a way to send MRIs and other medical images to his iPhone.Copeland's response: is

Providence Health & Services, the big health services network that includes Spokane-based Providence Health Care, is poised to do something Epic with its health records system, a move that it expects will make its operations more is preparing to by

Two and three years ago, Spokane Realtor Ron McIntire had to shovel out front doors in order to show houses. At the time, McIntire says, about four in 10 houses on the market were vacant, and many listing agents didn't keep the sidewalks clear.

For the first time in the 20-plus years that the Washington state Department of Ecology has generated recycling statistics, Spokane County residents recycled more waste than they threw away in 2010, according to figures released late last month by

Self-described serial entrepreneur Mark Baker formed a company in 2008 through which he developed a word-strategy card game called 5 To Close, but he never could develop a suitable strategy for producing the game and properly launching the three 5