With the addition of 350 parking meters on Spokane city streets outside the downtown core, a high-tech tool to find people with unpaid parking tickets, and steel boots that put teeth into previously unenforceable meter violations, the city of Spokane esti
The fight over whether to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, the government's export credit agency that helps foreign companies buy U.S. goods, is frustrating to some Spokane-area manufacturers and business owners. They support the reauthorization of t
Lake's Cakes Bakery has opened at 1718 N. Hamilton, specializing in custom-order cakes and what owner Ryan Lake calls his mason jar treats-three layers of gooey butter frosting and moist cake in an eight-ounce mason jar.
Lake and his partner, Natali
City, community, and arts leaders are combining efforts to improve a vacant lot at Third Avenue and Division Street-currently filled with rebar, bits of broken concrete foundation, and dried-out weeds-by putting up a portable, 420-foot plywood fence t
Kristen Otoupalik, longtime friend of Sheena Henderson, 30, who was killed by her husband Christopher Henderson, 37, at Deaconess Hospital last month, says she never will forget the text she received from her friend minutes before the shooting where Sheen
Itron Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of utility meter reading technology, with year-over-year revenue growth driven by double-digit gains in both its gas and water lines of business, is poised to take advantage of new global markets, says Philip Mezey
Spokane-based Graham Construc-tion & Management Inc. has been awarded two construction projects-one in Prosser, Wash., for Washington State University and another at Spokane International Airport-with a combined value of $5.3 million, says Brian Holec
Amy Doneen is a nurse practitioner, an author, an international speaker, and a business owner. She is in the business of preventing heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes. She is also co-founder of the Bale/Doneen Method of heart attack, stroke, and diabe
Reflecting the recent strength of the auto industry nationally, Medford, Ore.-based Lithia Motors, Inc., which operates four dealerships in the greater Spokane area, says it had the highest adjusted net income in its history in the second quarter.
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Warren Buffett has persuaded more than 100 billionaires to give away large portions of their wealth to philanthropy over the past few years. People in Spokane may not have billions to donate to charity but they are generous when it comes to giving money t