Inland Northwest employers regained the jobs they shed during the pandemic-induced recession and are likely to build upon those gains in 2022, Spokane economists say. The Spokane-Spokane Valley metropolitan area had 260,000 jobs in October, the most

A Deer Park native with family roots in the region extending back several generations, Mark Losh returned to the Spokane area recently to lead the West Plains Chamber of Commerce.

Executive pay at Inland Northwest-based publicly traded companies increased by double digits during the pandemic year of 2020, a Journal of Business analysis has found. The surge in total compensation for executives occurred during an unusual

University District Development Association CEO Lars Gilberts plans to step down by the end of the month to become assistant vice president of community development and impact at Numerica Credit Union.

The Greenstone Corp. family of companies, which is based in Liberty Lake and is behind Kendall Yards and a number of other developments throughout the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene area, plans to start

Gonzaga University is involved in two ongoing construction projects with a combined value approaching $110 million. The larger of the two projects is the $60 million medical and health education building, which is rising at 840 E. Spokane Falls Blvd.

A new health sciences building is rising at Whitworth University, and the $20 million project is on track to be completed early next year. Formally named the Dana and David Dornslife Health Sciences Building, the three-level, 40,000-square-foot

Work on the Spokane Transit Authority's $92.2 million City Line rapid-transit bus line route is well underway, and the new-to-Spokane transit option is scheduled to be up and running by May 2022.

One of Spokane's swiftest and most visible business casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic also made for the Journal's most-read story of 2020. And it wasn't really close, according to page-view data generated by Google Analytics, for SpokaneJournal.com.