Ron Wells, who heads the Spokane company that plans to redevelop the historic, but downtrodden Ridpath Hotel into the Ridpath Club Apartments, says the Washington State Housing Finance Commission is looking favorably on the funding package lined up for th
Three of four publicly-traded Inland Northwest companies releasing third-quarter earnings reports posted improved results.
Two, Coeur d'Alene-based Hecla Mining Co. and Spokane-based Ambassadors Group Inc., reported net income in the third quarter aft
Banner Corp., the publicly-traded, Walla Walla-based holding company for Banner Bank and Islanders Bank, announced this afternoon that it has agreed to merge into its operations privately-held, Spokane-based AmericanWest Bank in a $702 million transaction
Eastern Washington can't support two medical schools because of a lack of capacity in clinics and residency programs, says a study released this morning by the University of Washington.
The study, which UW commissioned Pittsburgh-based Tripp Umbach t
Providence Health Services-Washington announced this afternoon that it is moving forward with plans for an outpatient surgery center in the Providence Medical Park, in Spokane Valley, after receiving approval of its certificate-of-need application from th
Three Spokane business developers and investors have joined to buy the Plechner Building, which they plan to continue to operate as the Spokane Entrepreneurial Center.
Tom Simpson, a member of the ownership group, says he and fellow entrepreneurs, Rob Ma
Catholic Charities of Spokane, one of the area's largest social-service nonprofits, is in the initial design stages on a $5 million, 51-unit low-income housing project downtown, says John Fisher, housing development manager for Catholic Charities.
The
Since 1957, our Canadian friends and neighbors have celebrated Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October. Perhaps, this year we should have joined them.
Given the good news of our state's bountiful apple and cherry harvests this year, we could have
Spokane-area businesses tend not to get a lot of public credit for it, and perhaps appropriately so in the spirit of anonymous charitable giving, but we at the Journal see examples daily of the different ways in which many of them are striving through phi