Leaders of Spokane Valley-based Numerica Credit Union and Liberty Lake-based STCU are helping grow and shape the influence of their respective financial institutions in the Inland Northwest. Ezra Eckhardt, president and CEO of STCU, says that while the

After searching for a new headquarters facility for 1 1/2 years, Servpro of Spokane County is moving into the former Western States Equipment Co. site at 4625 E. Trent, in East Spokane, says Jess Hockett, director of sales and marketing at Servpro. Ste

A Spokane franchisee for Japan-based cream puff franchise Beard Papa's has opened its first Inland Northwest store at 4808 E. Sprague, in Spokane Valley. Marc Bryant and Sawako Hiraoka, who are husband and wife, are owners of the store through

At the start of the year, Erin Williams Hueter began her duties as the new executive director of the Health Sciences and Services Authority of Spokane County, taking over for the organization's founding director, Susan Ashe.

Gameplan Apps, an app-creation startup with ties to the Inland Northwest, has garnered a $500,000 equity investment from Cowles Ventures LLC and Kick-Start angel investment fund, both of Spokane.

Bankruptcy filings in 2022 continued the downward trend of the past several years in Eastern Washington, but bankruptcy attorneys here say filings are likely to climb this year. In 2022, 436 bankruptcy cases were filed in Spokane County, according to d

AgWest Farm Credit, the newly formed agricultural lending association, will focus its resources to enhancing its agricultural customer-owners' access to technology, which will enable them to modernize their growing methods and deliver efficient and

Müv Fitness, a Spokane-based exercise club chain, has leased a long-vacant, former Albertsons grocery store building on Spokane's South Hill, says Chris Bell, managing broker of Spokane-based commercial real estate brokerage NAI Black.

Jason Boudreau, owner of Spokane Valley-based Drive509 commercial truck driving school, has launched two software companies that are garnering attention within the trucker training world.

The Spokane region is experiencing stabilization in some major economic factors, and while consumer prices are unlikely to drop to pre-pandemic levels, a likely economic recession will slow inflation, Inland Northwest economists say.