Spokane businesspeople know Wayne Williams as a longtime telecommunications executive and a fixture in the Inland Northwest's tech scene.

Spokane Transit Authority plans to break ground in May on its $92.2 million City Line bus rapid-transit route. The six-mile City Line, which will extend from the Browne's Addition neighborhood to Spokane Community College and run through downtown

Two new office buildings with a combined cost of $57 million have taken shape next to the University District Pedestrian Bridge, on the southern edge of the U District. The five-story, 159,000-square-foot Catalyst Building, at 601 E. Riverside

Whitworth University has four projects worth just over $39 million total in the works or underway on its main campus in north Spokane. The largest of the projects is the planned $18 million health sciences building, on which construction is expected to

Gonzaga University is involved in two projects with total construction value of just over $116 million. Gonzaga and University of Washington have committed to a long-term lease for space in the envisioned, $60 million health sciences building.

More people might be shopping with a click than a physical cart these days, but brick-and-mortar retail news tops the Journal of Business' list of most-read business stories in 2019.

After respectable – albeit slower – gains in employment this year, Spokane-area economists are projecting up to 1.5% growth in jobs next year. That would equate to roughly 3,000 new jobs in the Spokane Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2020, which