A satirical skit in the cable-television comedy "Portlandia" has a couple in a restaurant who, after asking a long series of questions about the chicken the eatery serves, leaves to visit the farm at which the chicken was raised, wanting to see the

Executive compensation at Inland Northwest-based publicly traded companies made up for lost ground and slow growth in recent years, increasing almost 18 percent on average in 2010, the largest percentage increase since 2006. Some of the growth a

Advantage IQ Inc., the quickly growing Spokane-based subsidiary of Avista Corp., in recent years has repositioned itself as a technology-based energy-management company, rather than simply a bill manager for big companies. During the Avista has

The YMCA of the Inland Northwest is an early adopter of a nationwide Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance, a partnership that Minnesota-based health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. has launched with YMCA of the USA in an effort to slow growth a

Entrepreneurs who are considering a franchise opportunity, take note. According to franchise-law experts here, Washington state has some of the most franchisee-friendly statutes in the U.S. For companies that want to expand through franchising a