The Spokane County Sheriff's Office says it has made draft master plan updates that would trim 592 inmate beds and $66 million off previous size and cost estimates for a detention-services project designed to meet its needs over the next 25 Office

Yanked back from the brink of the bank boneyard, AmericanWest Bank now is eyeing renewed expansion that its new top executives believe could elevate it to a $10 billion to $15 billion institution, possibly before the end of the decade.Currently a

Inland Northwest Health Services, the big Spokane-based nonprofit, kept its strong recent growth trend intact in 2010, posting projected record revenue of about $167 million and adding more employees to boost its total work force to nearly revenue

Deaconess Medical Center, the Spokane area's second-largest hospital, plans to get back into the trauma-care business beginning Jan. 1.The action, it says, is part of its still-unfolding, long-term strategy to create an integrated health-care to

Ormet, Corp., a Hannibal, Ohio-based aluminum producer, has terminated a tentative agreement to buy the shuttered former Kaiser Aluminum Corp. Mead Works smelter property north of Spokane.In a brief news release announcing the action, the said,

Sacred Heart Children's Hospital has launched a program to install automated external defibrillators in Inland Northwest high schools, triggered partly by what it says has been a recent spike in adolescent deaths due to cardiac arrest."It is to