Spokane financial advisers and accountants say they're somewhat surprised the Washington state Supreme Court upheld the state's new tax on certain capital gains, and they're renewing efforts to examine its effects on high-net worth clients, sales

Many community and regional bank leaders here are focused on alleviating customer fears that two recent large bank failures could lead to further collapses in the banking industry. Such fallout hasn't materialized at community banks in the Inland North

Post Falls-based Prairie Falls Golf Club is preparing to open a new $10 million, 43,000-square-foot hotel, event, and retail facility this summer that is intended to be a community hub for residents and golfers on the north side of town.

Despite late openings at Spokane-area golf courses, managers are expecting an uptick, compared to last year when courses closed early.

Empire Bolt & Screw Inc., a Spokane-based distributor of threaded products, standard fasteners, and industrial goods, plans to open a new warehouse distribution facility in Summerville, South Carolina.

Spokane angel investor Tom Simpson says he has completed fundraising for Kick-Start V, a $3.8 million venture capital fund to invest in local and regional startups.

Manufacturing of commercial aircraft components is beginning to pick up again after years of low production rates here, some Inland Northwest aerospace companies say.

The Renton, Washington-based office of Panattoni Development Co. is behind two Spokane-area distribution center developments valued at $63 million combined. One is the $46 million, three-building West Plains Logistics complex planned on a 10-acre site

Two prominent Spokane bridge-replacement projects valued at a total of nearly $50 million are expected to wrap up this year. In downtown Spokane, on the west edge of Riverfront Park, the city of Spokane is replacing the 106-year-old, 333-foot-long