Health care in Spokane is about to go under the federal budget-balancing knife.Medicare and Medicaid spending in the county will be slashed by $172.5 million from 1998 through 2002 as a result of the 1998 Congressional Budget Resolution and says...
Full StoryThe Spokane Valley Junior Soccer Association and Spokane County hope to begin work this summer on a planned 70-acre sports complex in the Spokane Valley that eventually would include 13 soccer fields and five softball diamonds.The $1.1 million...
Full StoryOne of Spokanes biggest auto dealerships, Appleway Automotive Group, has bought the rights for Washington and Idaho to open nationally franchised used-car superstores called Drivers Marts, each of which is expected to carry large inventories of...
Full StoryA common sight in the heavily urban Kansai Region of Japan is that of a man in dapper business attire riding a bicycle, carrying a portfolio case in his bikes front basket and holding a cellular phone to his ear.Spokane delegates who returned...
Full StoryThe Washington state Department of Transportation finally has released its preferred route for the long-proposed north-south freeway, which would carry traffic between Interstate 90 on the south and both U.S. 2 and U.S. 395 north of Spokane.DOT...
Full StoryIn the year ended June 30, 1996, deposits in financial institutions in Spokane County grew at the lowest rate in a decade, new figures show.Deposits in the county totaled $4.091 billion as of June 30, up just 1.3 percent from $4.039 billion at 2...
Full StoryAfter surpassing lofty goals for wholesale power sales last year, Washington Water Power Co. is raising the bar once again.The Spokane company had projected it would sell $190 million worth of surplus electricity in 1996. It did that and up $230...
Full StoryIn two moves aimed at improving efficiency and patient care, Spokanes largest hospital has hired the Heart Institute of Spokane both to manage its cardiac services and, in a lesser role, to handle the admitting of patients who come to the for the...
Full StoryNISHINOMIYA, JapanSpokane civic leader and former businessman Ed Tsutakawa remembers as a teen-ager in Japan watching American baseball legend Babe Ruth play in an exhibition game at Koshien Stadium. The venerable old ballpark sits just across a...
Full StoryWTB Inc., a troubled Spokane trucking company that at one time purportedly commanded a fleet of 260 trucks operating nationwide, has filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.Petitions submitted to the U.S....
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Point Breakthrough: Nearly $100M in projects planned at Mirabeau Point
Convention bookings expected to rebound by 2025
WSU’s Center for Innovation, SP3NW merge operations
Change in Behavior: Frontier Behavioral Health moves to new model
Impacted: Council mulls impact fees with construction moratorium along U.S. 195 corridor set to end
Precision Cutting Technologies changes hands
