D.A. Davidson's Individual Investor Group is starting a financial advisor apprentice program. With almost 80 years of experience helping generations of clients, Davidson says it has developed this program to give candidates the structure, tools, strate

The city of Spokane and the unions that represent most of its employees took a step in the right direction when they made adjustments to the retirement-pension plan in an effort to make it more sustainable, rather than simply dumping more taxpayer money i

Hecla Mining Co., of Coeur d'Alene, reported this morning a second-quarter net loss of $14.5 million, or 4 cents a diluted share, compared with a loss of $24.9 million, or 8 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter. Hecla said in a press release it

Spokane accounting consultant firm Business Cents LLC owner Steffanie Anderson has purchased a 3,200-square-foot building at 23 N. Napa in the East Central neighborhood and will be moving the business there on Aug. 1, says company spokeswoman Makenzi Rell

Columbia Banking System Inc., the Tacoma, Wash.-based parent of Columbia State Bank, has signed an agreement to merge into its operations Intermountain Community Bancorp, the Sandpoint-based company that operates Intermountain Community Bank and Panhandle

Clearwater Paper Corp., of Spokane, announced this afternoon second-quarter net income of $12.5 million, or 61 cents a diluted share, up from $11.7 million, or 52 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter. The company reported $498.8 million in sales

Potlatch Corp., of Spokane, reported this morning second-quarter net income of $16.3 million, or 40 cents a diluted share, down from earnings of $19.2 million, or 47 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. Earnings fell mostly due to a larger income

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital announced this afternoon plans for a $19.2 million expansion and remodel of its adult cardiac intensive care unit. Construction is scheduled to start July 28 and to be completed in spring o

Over the relatively short span of about 25 years, the Riverpoint Campus has evolved into an attractive urban educational setting, a magnet for an expanding number of ambitious future medical professionals, and a major downtown Spokane asset. The future o