U.S. Small Business Administration-backed lending has started strong in 2017, and demand for the guaranteed loans looks to remain steady, some top SBA lenders here say. Ted Schinzel, SBA's Spokane branch manager, says, however, that although 2017 has s

Heather Stratford-Geibel is a rarity in her profession. She is CEO of IT Training Solutions, a Spokane-based company that specializes in cybersecurity, but also provides instruction and consulting in other facets of information technology. Research shows

As New Jersey businesses struggled to recover from Superstorm Sandy in late 2012, Mark Jacobus says he felt motivated to launch a company to help businesses and organizations secure programs and systems to ensure they can rely on backup power when the gri

Nancy Connors still periodically laughs at herself when she thinks about the fact that not only does she own a security business, but she's been running it for just a little more than 20 years now. Connors says she's quiet and shy by nature and never

Now at the start of its 11th year of operations, Spokane-based information technology company Strategic Integrators Inc. continues to grow, evolving to meet the needs of its clients. The company, which started as Strategic Hardware LLC, changed its name

The director of Healing Rooms Ministries, in Spokane, says the organization has partnered with another nonprofit and nutritionists to create an herbal supplement they believe has its foundational roots in the diet God created for humankind.

A Spokane architect is among local pioneers of an energy-saving design and construction standard known as passive house. Sam Rodell, a longtime architect, has been certified for three years as a passive-house consultant through Chicago-based Passive Hous

A Spokane Regional Health District program helps hundreds of women in Eastern Washington who qualify for free screenings to detect whether they have breast, cervical, or colon cancer. The district has overseen what's now called the Breast, Cervical and