Infrastructure is in place for the first phase in the Mead Works development, and lots are staked for housing starts.

Prominent commercial real estate broker Dick Edwards, who died Feb. 11, is being remembered as the driving force behind economic growth on the West Plains.

The current owners of the Sunshine Mine complex, near Kellogg, Idaho, are working on a plan to reopen the mine in about five years and eventually employ about 250 miners.

Jim Elmer, who died Jan. 6 is being remembered as a prominent Spokane contractor and a nationally recognized construction industry advocate.

Pam Senske, former leader of Spokane based Pearson Packaging Systems, instilled a culture that continues to drive the company, people who knew and worked with her say.

As the Eastern Washington COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force approaches its third year of cracking down on thefts of COVID-relief funding there’s no slowdown to prosecutions in sight.

Randall Fewel, former president and CEO of Inland Northwest Bank, remains in touch with some of his one-time counterparts in the banking industry, but he’s really enjoying being out of the business

Since the Journal last visited with him nearly a decade ago, Berry Fowler, who perhaps is best known as the founder of the Sylvan Learning Centers franchise operation he sold in 1985, remains active with his executive coaching business school and a franchise consultancy.

Steel Structures America owners Shawn and Justin Sternberg now have five complementary stand-alone companies based in Post Falls.

Cowboy CEO Fred Brown is back in the saddle with his hands on the reins of another company in the forefront of artificial intelligence technology.