Unless Spokane-based hydrogen fuel cell company ReliOn could land a big investment or find a buyer, its chances of riding out 2014 looked bleak, its former chief executive officer said this week. So to keep the company operating, ReliOn’s investors agreed to sell the company…
The second of two live debates on the topic of an increase to the national minimum wage will start this evening at 7 p.m. at Gonzaga University's Jepson Center. The event is free to the public. Sponsored by the Washington Policy Center, tonight's debate will…
There's a debate this evening on the topic of a national minimum wage. It's presented by the Washington Policy Center and hosted by the University of Washington. You can check it out online through TVW, the state television network. The Washington Policy Center hosts a…
A Boston company later this year will try to launch the largest high-altitude wind turbine in Alaska. Altaeros Energies plans to launch a 1000-foot-high floating wind turbine south of Fairbanks to bring affordable power to a remote community. Altaeros managers explained to The New York…
We'll be asking what the actual headcount reduction will be, following today's announcement that the Umpqua Bank merger with Sterling Bank has cleared all hurdles. The first signs of the deal will be Sterling’s regional signs being replaced by Umpqua Bank signs the weekend of…
Organizers of the next Startup Weekend Spokane are hosting a “how-to-pitch” workshop explaining how to present a one-minute business pitch. The next Startup Weekend will be April 11-13. It’s a three-day competition that involves teams working on a startup business idea. It often draws more…
The heated debate in the north Spokane Logan Neighborhood will continue in a public way today, around 11:30 a.m. Residents in that area oppose plans by the McDonald's Corp. to build a drive-through-only restaurant at the corner of Hamilton and Augusta. They say traffic in…
A week ago we posted the plan by the McDonald's Corp. to build a new restaurant near Gonzaga, on the corner of Hamilton and Augusta. This week, the big noise is coming from that business's neighbors, who strongly oppose the decision to make the restaurant…
The National Retail Federation urged the U.S. Senate on Wednesday to switch the nation from fraud-susceptible credit and debit cards to more protected cards using a personal identification number (PIN). The NRF said credit card-issuers' insistence on cards that use a signature instead of a…
The next Startup Weekend Spokane will begin on April 11. In preparation, let's take a moment to see what's happened to iCPooch, one of the entrants in a 2012 Startup Weekend. Though it didn't win on that occasion, its founders, young Brooke Martin and her…
McDonald’s Corp. will open a new restaurant this summer on property it purchased near Gonzaga University in north Spokane. The Oak Brook, Ill., company bought two lots on the southwest corner of Augusta Avenue and Hamilton Street. It’s taking the corner lot last used by…
Cindy Cohn, legal director and general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will discuss “National Security Agency (NSA) Mass Spying, the Constitution, and You” at the Gonzaga University School of Law Judge Justin L. Quackenbush Lecture at noon March 31. The lecture will be at…
Washington state’s unemployment rate stayed stuck at 6.4 percent in February, state officials reported Wednesday. The Employment Security Department also said Spokane’s jobless rate in January pushed up to 7.9 percent, a half percent higher than December. Because the department goes through a revision of…
Leo and Teresa Gonder, who own and operate a construction company in Leavenworth, Wash., will open the Tamarack Public House this summer at 912 W. Sprague Ave., in downtown Spokane. Following renovations, their hope is to have a soft opening around the time of Hoopfest,…
A few years back we did a quick item on the sign that some offices in downtown Spokane could see -- the "think" sign between Riverside and Main. A photo from the old view is in that blog post. This year, back in January, Magner…
In last week's SR story about Crowdswell, a website launched by partners of Spokane creative firm Magner Sanborn, we mentioned two local "swells" -- the name the site uses for worthy projects that people can support through funding or work. The two swells -- both…
Earlier this week we published survey results asking credit unions the financial impact of last fall's URM Stores credit card breach. The story is here. Here's a little infographic provided by the survey creator, the Northwest Credit Union Association, which represents institutions in Washington and…
Radio Shack announced it's going to close something like 1,1000 stores over the next year or so, roughly one of ever five it operates. We don't have any list that details where those closures will be. We'll keep after that, hoping to find out the…
Nadine Burgess has a reason to be proud. Her business, Spokane Gymnastics, is humming along. The all-ages training facility has added a second center at 2515 N. Locust Road in Spokane Valley. Called Spokane Gymnastics Argonne Village, the new space has 28,000 square feet and…
Things continue happening in and around the city downtown business core. Shown here is the newest architect's rendering of the Worthy Convention Center Hotel, which is steadily taking shape in downtown Spokane. This is at least the third rendering, which keep evolving as the project…
Spokane Gymnastics has added a second all-ages training center at 2515 N. Locust Road in Spokane Valley. Called Spokane Gymnastics Argonne Village, the facility is 28,000 square feet and takes over the former Stroh’s Fitness at that address, near the intersection of Montgomery and Argonne.…
Is this the year to buy or sell a house? Is this the year to get your Realtor's license and make big bucks? Here's one opportunity to figure out those big question: the 2014 annual Real Estate Market Forum, starting at 7:45 a.m. Thursday morning.…
File this under "I'm already a bit overweight and I'll deal with it later." The big news from the Big Lots company is that its stores now are the official outlets for Hostess Thrift items. Consumers will now be able to visit any Big Lot…
There's lots of stuff going on downtown. The annual Downtown Spokane Partnership meeting is Wednesday, Feb. 26,. this week, and the topics will include how to keep up the past few years' positive momentum. The event starts at 3 p.m. at ballrooms A & B…
Sunday the Spokesman Review jumps back into pot coverage, specifically how interested statewide and regional banks are in doing business with the I-502 industry that is being created after state voters legalized pot in Washington. The story finds, a bit surprisingly, that all the large…
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