Local business

WASHINGTON – Inland Northwest leaders from both parties are expressing outrage at the federal decision announced Wednesday to withdraw $48 million in funding that was awarded in January to create an aerospace technology hub in Airway Heights.

Several months after STCU purchased Oregon-based Community Bank, officials this week announced that the two financial institutions will integrate at the end of the week.

In late March, just before President Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs, Boise-based supermarket giant Albertsons sent a letter telling suppliers to eat the cost of any related price increases.

The owners of Riverview Retirement Community, located just east of the Avista Corp. headquarters in the Logan neighborhood, are planning to demolish and replace a nursing home on the property, according to plans submitted to the city of Spokane.

For business leaders trying to make sense of President Donald Trump's tariff policy, which has changed scores of times, the state of Washington has launched an online guide to help provide information for everything from showing the tariff percentage from each country and tips to possibly avoid higher costs.

March is generally a good time for those who sell new and used cars. But the chaos swirling around the potential economic impact of President Donald Trump's wave of new tariffs made this past March particularly good.

Supercan Bulk shipped one lot, 50 cases, of 15.9-ounce bags of Supercan Pig Ear Slivers, Thick Cut Piggy Ear Slices to North 40 Outfitters’ Spokane store, 9646 U.S. 2, in April 2024.

Crop conditions had already made a cup of Joe more expensive in Spokane, but the announcement this week of new tariffs on the countries that produce coffee beans bring even more uncertainty and will likely cause even higher prices, local roasters said.

From staff reports

Tech stocks continued their downward slide from Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs, costing several huge Northwest companies billions in market value.

Fans, alumni and women’s basketball teams weren’t the only ones in town for the March Madness games over the weekend.

In order to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs.

Downtown Spokane was crawling with visitors this weekend, much to the benefit of Spokane businesses.

The Coeur d'Alene Resort this week held a ground breaking for what the company president called its biggest expansion of the facility since the existing resort tower opened 39 years ago. 

When Tom and Sue Millersmith opened Hair Etc. on the corner of Francis and Nevada on April 1, 1975, haircuts cost $4.50.

While unspoken were the names of either political party, the deepening American political polarization became the focus of a Spokane business organization's annual meeting on Tuesday.

Numerica Credit Union will lay off about 3.5% of its workforce as it restructures “in response to the evolving economic landscape and the changing needs of its members,” a news release said Tuesday.

Photos of neon-feathered beauties beckon customers through the double doors of My First Bird. Nestled in the corner of a strip mall near Pines Road in the Spokane Valley, this tropical paradise is the only business of its type in the area. Once inside, you are instantly enveloped by the clamorous chirps, shrieks and whistles of 100-plus captivating fliers. In short time, you will likely find yourself shouting out questions to that employee perched behind the counter.