If you used to bank at WaMu, you may have left some cash behind.The Washington Revenue Department says nearly $10 million deposited in Washington Mutual went unclaimed after the Seattle bank failed in 2008.J.P. Morgan Chase received most of WaMu’s accounts, but inactive accounts were…
More "Help Wanted" signs popped up around Washington this spring, the first increase since the fall of 2006.A Washington Employment Security Department survey indicated employers were looking for 38,732 workers, up 21 percent since fall 2009. The high was 90,000 vacancies in 2006.Almost half the…
The Washington Policy Center has set a date for its Spokane Valley session in its statewide Lead The Way series. The Valley session will be Aug. 11 at 7:30 a.m. at Spokane Valley Fire Station 8, near Wilbur and East Montgomery. The policy center, a…
We've just mentioned the imminent opening of mega-hobby store, Hobby Lobby, in Spokane Valley this summer. Those interested in applying for work can line up on Monday, July 19, at the store location, 13902 E. Indiana.A company spokesman said this store will hire between 30…
Yo crafters and hobby types. News of major proportion just in: Mega hobby and craft center chain, Hobby Lobby, will move into the empty G.I. Joe's store in Spokane Valley. It's expecting to open the new store in August.The new Spokane Valley store will be…
F5 Networks, a Seattle tech firm with a development office in Liberty Lake, is among 80 finalists for Washington’s Best Workplaces, chosen by the Puget Sound Business Journal. The winners will be announced later this summer. The best workplace award identifies firms that have excelled…
Idaho's Division of Human Resources is posting state government job openings on Twitter.The popular social networking site will enable the state to more quickly communicate job opportunities and let followers quickly alert friends and relatives about openings, Gov. Butch Otter says.“When job opportunities come along…
The unemployment rate in Spokane County dropped more than half a point in June, and statewide joblessness is back down to where it stood a year ago, state officials said today. Unemployment last month fell to 8.5 percent locally, down from 9.1 percent in May…
A major road construction project in Spokane Valley will shut down the busy intersection of Sprague Avenue and Sullivan Road for what's expected to be three weeks, beginning July 19. Traffic will be re-routed on Broadway, Conklin, Fourth and Adams. It'll be more difficult to…
From time to time various companies come through town and tell folks they'll buy your gold, or sometimes, your silver. You see it a lot when the economy is bad and people feel a need to trade in items like watches for some spending money.A…
View Larger MapThe South Hill former Blockbuster building, at 1318 S. Grand, has been closed for 14 months. See the closing announcement.A local group planned to move a restaurant called Savory into that building. Then the project stalled due to unexpected issues, including remodeling costs.There's…
Next week's July 22 Executive Connect Breakfast will feature Jennifer Hall, one of the key people who helped launch the Main Market Cooperative, a full-fledged food retailer and nutrition education center.Presented by Connect Northwest, the morning session starts at 7:30 a.m. in downtown Spokane, in…
An index of Inland Northwest stocks fell 8.9 percent during the second quarter, but nevertheless outperformed the S&P 500 Index, according to Hart Capital Management.The Spokane investment firm said a rebound in the value of two Spokane banks — Northwest Bancorporation, up 30.5 percent, and…
Liberty Lake-based Itron Inc. said this week that they've just helped install their millionth OpenWay smart meter at Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation’s largest electric utilities.What is striking is that the media folks at Itron went out and even found who the…
Home sales in Spokane County dipped slightly in the past month but remain near levels seen a year ago.The average sales price in June was up from May but lower than one year ago, the Spokane Association of Realtors reported today.Closed sales totaled 506 in…
One of the main news announcements this morning came by way of Boeing, Alaska Airlines and Washington State University. This is the formal announcement of an initiative to promote more biofuel use by the aviation industry.WSU has been active in promoting this topic. The news…
The photo that ran with this business story on Thursday shows former astronaut Mike McCulley visiting with the workers at Liberty Lake's Insight Direct. (CLICK the link to look at the expanded size version of the image.)He was speaking inside a hallway at the firm's…
A tourism official from Loudon County, Va., has been named president and CEO of the Spokane Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau. Cheryl Kilday will begin her new job in Spokane on Aug. 23, the CVB said in a news release this morning. She has 25…
The publication Hospitals and Health Networks revamped its method of coming up with its 99 "most wired" U.S. hospital list. It claims it's created a more accurate set of surveys given to medical IT directors asking questions on clinical quality, patient safety, continuum of care…
MODIFIED with new information, updated at 6:00 p.m. July 6:An unknown hacker took advantage of a web vulnerability to redirect the Sirti.org website to an Iranian website over the weekend.The Sirti main page was replaced by a page with Arabic words, a reference to the…
Hecla Mining Co. is opening an office in Idaho’s Silver Valley to keep local residents abreast of future expansions at the Lucky Friday Mine and the company’s role in environmental cleanup in the area.U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo will speak at the grand opening of the…
Our recent post on the continuing quest by Spokane inventor Rick Woodbury to win the Automotive X Prize produced questions by commentators. Among them: Who would buy one of his cars, when they cost about $120,000? What does it mean to say the test requires…
U.S. construction employment fell by 22,000 in June to a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.6 million, the lowest level since August 1996, according to Random Lengths newsletter.Citing the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the newsletter said that the unemployment rate in construction was 20.1 percent…
Spokane International Airport Director Neal Sealock has submitted his resignation, effective July 21.Sealock, who became director in December 2005 after 31 years in the U.S. Army, said he wants to spend more time with his family, and pursue a doctorate.Dave Brukardt, head of the airport…
Northwest Map & Travel Book Center has moved from downtown Spokane and reopened in Spokane Valley.Owners Linda and Steve Mitrovich moved the business from 525 W. Sprague to the new address, 10525 E. Sprague.They made the move last weekend. Yes. The old and new addresses…
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