Over the past year the Verizon Foundation has provided about $1 million in grants to about 250 groups and statewide programs. Among the recipients is Web Wise Kids, based in Spokane. It's received $30,000 to train educators throughout Eastern Washington to help students prevent cyber-bullying…
Seven company presidents today rode the big quad chair at Schweitzer Mountain Resort as part of the great Sandpoint Chairlift Pitch Contest. In the photo here, eventual winner, CEO Tracy Gibson of Ruby's Lube, pitches judges Kevin Kluender and Travis Kaull, on the left and…
On March 27, two GU business faculty members will discuss their insights into how women can manage stress. The event will start at 10 a.m. in the McCarthey Athletic Center's Herak Room. It's free to the public. The presenters are Molly Pepper and Peggy Sue…
Groom Energy has just released a list we'll call some attention to; it's a list of 10 smart-grid vendors to watch in the ongoing energy efficiency marketplace. Spokane's Ecova (formerly Advantage IQ, and before that, Avista Advantage) is among the 10. The group of 10…
The good folks at Challenger, Gray & Christmas, based in Chicago, report that the weekend before the start of the NCAA March Madness tourney is a double-barrelled setup for folks to slack off at work. A report it cited today said the change in Daylight…
Patrick Jones, who heads the Eastern Washington University Community Indicators Project, sent this our way. A University of California Berkeley economics institute has developed what it calls a "resilience capacity index," and it applied the index to cities across the country. The full report can…
The AAA auto club reports the average price of a gallon of gas in Washington is $3.98. That’s up 4 cents in a week and 46 cents in a month. It’s 18 cents higher than the national average. Some metro prices from the AAA’s Monday…
The folks at Sandpoint Forward who are sponsoring a Chairlift Pitch contest next week have a pretty solid idea. We summarized that idea in a story earlier this week. The guy whose head hatched the Chairlift Pitch contest is Mark Rivers, who lives in Boise…
You may be familiar with Litehouse Foods’ signature chunky bleu cheese dressing, but do you know what inspired the recipe that Ed Hawkins Sr. came up with back in the early 1960s? Learn how this successful Hope, Idaho, company got its start and read about…
While opponents are still legally challenging the validity of Initiative 1183, which privatized liquor sales in Washington, you can start looking at ways to bid on 167 state- run stores that will be sold off this year. The initiative will allow private companies to sell…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Spokane-based Ecova a 2012 Energy Star sustained excellence award, recognizing the company's commitment to energy efficiency. Ecova, formerly Advantage IQ, is a spin-off company of Spokane-based energy utility Avista Corp. The company, with offices across the states, provides…
Sandpoint's Coldwater Creek released earnings numbers on Wednesday for the fourth quarter and fiscal year. The basics: Fourth quarter produced a loss of $12.8 million, compared to a loss one year ago of $34.7 million. For the 12 months ending Jan. 28, the loss was…
Today's quick Spokesman-Review story on a Liberty Lake location for Camping World had the basics, but didn't have every key detail. This post will try to fill in a few blanks. The Camping World folks today confirmed that the new Liberty Lake location will be…
Net traffic tracker comScore today released new numbers on the smartphone market in the United States. The numbers show both Android and Apple are making strong gains in one of the strongest sectors of the country's tech industry. The graphic here gives the counts and…
The former Mastercraft building in Liberty Lake has been acquired for a new Camping World store, according to the company that brokered the deal. Camping World, based in Bowling Green, Ky., is one of the nation's bigger sellers of RV equipment, camping equipment and RV…
Wondering how that contractor managed to underbid his competition by so much? Maybe it’s because he doesn’t pay his taxes, does shoddy work or will take your money and run. You can find out at suspectfraud.com, a website developed with the Washington state departments of…
Chrysler aims to be the first U.S. automaker to produce a factory-built pickup truck that is powered mainly by natural gas, the Associated Press reports. The privately held company said today that its new Ram 2500 Heavy Duty CNG truck will be sold to commercial…
Gasoline prices have finally dropped after 27 days. The nationwide average for regular unleaded slipped less than a penny to $3.764 per gallon today. That ended a streak of price hikes that began on Feb. 8. Pump prices rose by more than 28 cents per…
Fire investigators say a fire that destroyed a helmet business and a vacuum cleaner business Friday in Coeur d'Alene was likely caused by arson. Investigators found a gas can under a desk in the building housing Helmet Outlet USA, the Coeur d’Alene Press reports. The…
The Internal Revenue Service is warning senior citizens and other taxpayers to beware of an emerging federal tax refund scam tempting victims to file tax returns claiming fraudulent refunds. Bogus refund claims have been identified across the nation. These schemes carry a common theme of…
Long-awaited Marshalls will open its new Spokane location this Thursday, March 8. The company is one of the country's larger off-price retailers, offering a variety of clothing for men and women. The Spokane store will fill 26,300 square feet in NorthTown Mall, last used by…
The recession was not as hard on Idaho workers as originally estimated, but the state is pulling out of the recession more slowly than other states, the Idaho Department of Labor says. Thousands more Idahoans were working the past two years and fewer were unemployed…
The BBB serving Eastern Washington, North Idaho and Montana has a new CEO and president. Eleanor "Elea" Katzele, who has been vice president of the Spokane-based Better Business Bureau since 2007, will step into the position being vacated by Jan Quintrall. Quintrall has accepted the…
The Spokane Tribe is holding a press conference Friday at its SpoKo store in Airway Heights on Friday to talk about the release of the environmental impact statement for its proposed casino in Airway Heights. Releasing the EIS is the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.…
Cyan Worlds now has an iPad version of the classic breakthrough game Myst. The revised version is the 3D enhance realMyst, redesigned and enhanced for the mobile iOS platform. It will come out in April, said company President Tony Fryman. “To explore the islands and…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
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