Local business

One of the few Spokane-area businesses that actually takes raw materials and molds them into useful parts for other industries has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after suffering a series of setbacks, including one from an employee who was charged with syphoning more than $1 million into her own bank accounts.

The Iran conflict has driven gas prices up, including a 20 cents-per-gallon spike at a downtown Spokane gas station.

One of Spokane’s beloved news anchors is leaving for Boise, but not without a shiny new keepsake to bring with him.

Two brothers living in East Africa were faced with a difficult decision in 2009: continue a life of forced servitude or move to a new country for a fresh start.

Inland Northwest golfers can start retrieving their clubs from winter storage.

For three months in 2015, Tamar Powers and her 8-year-old son bathed in the Spokane River.

Irv Zakheim was a few years removed from selling puka shell necklaces on the beaches of Hawaii when he had a $150 million dollar dinnerware idea.

The Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce CEO Lance Beck is leaving the organization after more than seven years. Beck is taking on a new role as chief strategy officer with Greater Spokane Inc. in early March.

After a monthslong nationwide search for a new general manager, KSPS PBS selected nine-year employee Skyler Reep for the job.

As part of a deposition with a lawyer, Harley Douglass described growing up around a father whose focus mostly centered on building a real estate empire in and around Spokane. Harley said navigating around Harlan Douglass, who died in 2023, was like walking across a frozen lake: you never knew when you were on thin ice.

A Coeur d’Alene frozen yogurt shop is honoring Charlie Kirk months after his September assassination by printing a picture of him on froyo cups they say will help spread the word of God.

With four screening rooms, Liberty Lake’s soon-to-be Cinema Quattro will live up to its name. But developers have their sights set higher than your average theater.

Lyn Cunningham and Craig Barrile became STCU members in 1975. The young couple needed a loan to purchase two mountain bikes, the kind “you have to hunch over,” for $150 each.

The CEOs of the nine Idaho-based companies whose shares trade on major stock exchanges collectively made over $83 million in 2024, records reviewed by the Idaho Statesman show.

Since its opening four months ago, the Vow Room has hosted around eight weddings in its downtown Spokane elopement venue and scheduled over 20 more through the end of 2026.

Brick West Brewing is hosting a release party Wednesday for a fruity new drink that will benefit nonprofit Girls on the Run.

Will Idahoans ever see a friendly bucktoothed beaver smiling down over Interstate 84 like a beacon? Or eat Texas-style barbecued brisket washed down with a Dr. Pepper slushy while they fuel up their car?

A housing developer has plans to build a four-story apartment building with 40 units of housing in the Perry District north of Grant Elementary School.

There are a series of Uber Eats’ Super Bowl ads circulating the internet where movie star Matthew McConaughey brings up a valid point: Is football one big ploy to sell food?