The Washington state Department of Ecology is seeking public input through Feb. 2 on proposed multimillion-dollar plans to clean up contamination at the grain elevator in the Freeman area, about 13 miles south of Spokane Valley.
Several policy changes were included in the recently approved 2021 Omnibus spending bill that will ease the federal student aid application process and expand Pell Grant eligibility, industry observers here say.
The old 345-acre Northside Landfill, once the site of the largest garbage disposal operation in Spokane County, reached a milestone late last year as it was declassified as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund Site and removed from the age
Work is underway on a new Old Navy retail store at the Franklin Park Commons shopping center, on Spokane's North Side.
In a prepared statement, a Gap Inc. spokesperson says the Franklin Park store, at 5628 N. Division, will open at the end of April.
The banking field hasn't lost its luster for Lorilei Bruggink, who has worked in the industry for 35 years and was named president of Spokane Valley-based State Bank Northwest earlier this month.
The Spokane Regional Transportation Council, in partnership with several Spokane-based agencies, plans an electric vehicle infrastructure overhaul that will grow substantially the current number of charging stations in the county over the next few years.
The U.S. Small Business Administration has released a third round of Paycheck Protection Program loan funds, and bankers here say they're prepared to handle changes made as a result of updates to the program.
Carla Cicero was born and raised in Los Angeles, where her credit union career began in her teenage years. In 2011, she came to Spokane from a Wisconsin credit union to become president and CEO at Spokane Valley-based Numerica Credit Union.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court trusts have issued what might be the final payments to investors who lost hundreds of millions of dollars when Spokane-based Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. and affiliate Summit Securities Inc. shut down nearly two decades ago
Despite the economic havoc COVID-19 brought on wide swaths of the economy last year, the pandemic's presence didn't halt the downward trend of bankruptcy filings in Eastern Washington.