The Spokane Area Workforce Development Council has received $3.2 million-down $150,000 from last year-in state workforce development money for the summer-2014-to-summer-2015 funding period. The reduced funding isn't necessarily a bad thing, though,
IntelliPaper LLC, the Edwall, Wash.-based company that makes recyclable, paper-based USB flash drives, has raised more than 10 times its goal of $10,000 through a recently completed Kickstarter crowdsourcing campaign for swivelCard, a 'smart†business
Spokane medical benefit broker VEBA Service Group is planning to open a call center division here on Jan. 1, says Mark Wilkerson, area president for VEBA.
The company, located in 8,400 square feet of space at 906 W. Second downtown, will be hiring six c
Skin care is one of the fastest-growing sectors within the beauty industry, according to Washington State Employment Security figures, says Dana Ware, a master esthetician who plans to train students in the Spokane area in all phases of skin care with the
Celeste Shaw spent much of her childhood on a farm near Wolf Point, a tiny town in northeastern Montana. From an early age, she says, she was torn between being out with the cowboys where the action was, and being inside with the women, whose job it was t
As the number of elderly Americans continues to rise, the cost of long-term care insurance has become a concern, with many here unable to afford the coverage and some choosing to buy hybrid or partial policies, some industry experts here say.
Paul Vire
The Washington State Small Business Development Center Network, the Spokane-based statewide business advisory organization, has named Duane Fladland as its director.
Anson Fatland, Seattle-based associate vice president for economic development and exter
The Washington state Community Economic Revitalization Board has approved a loan and a grant totaling $538,000 to construct infrastructure to expand one steel supplier and to bring another supplier to the Inland Northwest market.
Together, the companies
The Coeur d'Alene City Council has approved land-use requests for an envisioned 70-bed assisted-living facility and 20 other residential units on 13 acres of land near the French Gulch area on the east edge of the city, says architect Dick Stauffer, who