Bank, credit union, and investment market executives here are mostly bullish about the coming year, despite potentially growth-dampening effects of anticipated Federal Reserve rate hikes and uncertainties stemming from the recent presidential election. T

Health care industry executives here are gazing into a murky crystal ball as they try to plan and budget for changes in the coming year, amid new major players entering the market and the possibility of the federal Affordable Care Act being abolished or d

Palouse Capital Management Inc., a Spokane-based boutique asset management firm, says its Diversified Income Strategy has earned recognition-for the eighth time-as a top performer in the PSN Top Guns list for the 12-month period that ended Sept. 30.

No one can say Erick Halkier Hansen didn't have ambitious business aspirations. It's sad-and arguably a loss for downtown Spokane-that he wasn't able to find a way to fulfill those aspirations honestly. Such thoughts have been coming to mind fo

MultiCare Health System, a Tacoma-based provider network, is using billboards here to market health care services that Spokane-area consumers can access online. 'Online healthcare when and where you need it. Visit multicare.ecare.com,” says the messa

Wintersport, a popular longtime ski shop at the southeast corner of Division Street and Bridgeport Avenue on Spokane's North Side, will be closing around the end of this month, says owner Darrell Perdue, who has sold the property and is retiring. Perdu

PacifiCAD Inc., a 27-year-old Spokane reseller and servicer of design software for the architectural, engineering, construction, and manufacturing industries, says it's launching a new offering that it expects will boost its presence in the manufacturin

Investors have recouped a small, but welcome additional portion of the many millions of dollars they had tied up in Metropolitan Securities Co. and Summit Securities Inc. before those affiliated companies here shut down 12 years ago. The Metropolitan Cre

PacifiCAD Inc., a 27-year-old Spokane reseller and servicer of software for Autodesk and some other products related to engineering design, is preparing to diversify its offerings. The company says it has sold its Autodesk manufacturing and plant assets