The Washington Health Benefit Exchange board of directors last month provided final certification of Qualified Health Plans to be offered through Washington Healthplanfinder during the second open enrollment period.

Inland Northwest Health Services CEO Tom Fritz will retire at the end of this year, the organization announced today. Fritz, 62, has served as CEO of INHS for 16 years. The organization, which operates St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute, Northwest M

A land-use planning strategy intended to promote high-density development along Hamilton Street near Gonzaga University, could serve as an innovative first step toward neighborhood-specific zoning, assuming common sense prevails. As described in depth o

Eating and drinking place sales totaled $47.3 billion in July, the strongest monthly volume on record and up 0.2 percent from June, according to preliminary figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.  Steady job growth and improving consumer confidence poin

Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased 7.5 percent in June 2014 compared with June 2013, according to the June CoreLogic Home Price Index report released in early August by CoreLogic, an Irvine, Calif.-based property information, an

Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based electronic services manufacturer, reported this afternoon net income of $1.4 million, or 12 cents a diluted share, for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year ended June 28. That's down from $2.4 million, or 21 c

Washington Trust Bank has given downtown Spokane a welcome boost by recently purchasing the vacant Executive Court building that once was part of the Ridpath Hotel complex, with plans to convert the mostly four-story structure into office space to accommo

The Children's Home Society of Washington, a Seattle-based child-advocacy nonprofit, has opened a mental health office in the Northeast Community Center, at 4001 N. Cook. The office will provide children and families in north Spokane greater access to