A proposed merger between Providence Health & Services, the Renton, Wash.-based parent of Spokane-based Providence Health Care, and smaller Irvine, Calif.-based St. Joseph Health has been cleared to move ahead, albeit with a host of conditions. The Calif

Inland Northwest Rail Museum, a nonprofit organization that formerly operated under the name Inland Empire Railway Historical Society, is getting ready to open to the public the $1.9 million first phase of a new museum by that name near Reardan, about 20

A real estate subsidiary of Cowles Co., of Spokane, plans to convert four floors of the Chronicle Building at 926 W. Sprague downtown into apartments and hopes to have them all completed and ready for occupancy by February. Doug Yost, director of real es

Womer & Associates, the Spokane-based, Native American-owned architectural and engineering firm, says it has been recognized for a tribal project it designed recently, and has landed another design project from the same West Side tribe.

A proposed merger between Providence Health & Services, the Renton, Wash.-based parent of Spokane-based Providence Health Care, and smaller California-based St. Joseph Health has cleared a hurdle and appears to have one significant one remaining.

The residential construction market here is expected to stay vibrant this year-and to be better for some builders than last year, particularly larger builders-but the market is being constrained somewhat by a shortage of developable lots and qualified