Jordan Allen's quickly growing business, Stay Alfred, is located at 123 E. Sprague, where Spokane's University District meets the city's downtown core, but it makes its money at the intersection of hotels and vacation rentals. The company converts

If it involves entrepreneurship and it's located in Spokane, chances are good that Tom Simpson has something to do with it. The 55-year-old Spokane native is president of the Spokane Angel Alliance investment fund, chairman and co-founder of Spokane e

The number of Inland Northwest-based publicly traded companies is shrinking, but for the executives at the corporations that remain, total compensation grew substantially in 2014, the Journal of Business annual analysis shows. Average total compensation

Edmund O. Schweitzer III founded Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1984, and essentially from the beginning, the company has been growing rapidly. The 31-year-old, Pullman-based enterprise designs, manufactures, and supports products and services f

Inland Imaging LLC is going 3-D in its mammography imaging units, installing new breast tomosynthesis machines that it hopes will find cancer earlier and reduce false positives.

Unemployment rate and total employment are two of WorkSource Spokane's common gauges of economic health, but another number also is telling: 43.

Barry Baker is a second-generation builder who has worked in the Spokane construction sector for nearly 40 years. As president of Baker Construction & Development Inc., the 60-year-old commercial contractor has seen the 64-year-old company started by his

Laurie Roth has a wide range of business experience, but most of her career has centered on a narrow field of finance: U.S. Small Business Administration lending.