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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?

Despite Spokane’s balmy winter, twice a day, “snow” falls downtown on Wall Street.

A fortune-telling, future-seeing animatronic Chewbacca, a Big Buck Hunter arcade game with orange toy rifles, and a line of metal shelves (taller than the famous wookie from Star Wars) filled with pool balls are just some of the toys, trinkets and other terrific things inside Bullseye Amusements workshop.

Saturday’s hardwood matchup between the Gonzaga Bulldogs and the Saint Mary’s Gaels will feature a few characters vying for the top title.

Officials from Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories announced Thursday that company president, David E. Whitehead, has been appointed to an advisory council for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Avista Utilities announced Friday that it has proposed a four-year general rate increase for Washington customers that calls for a 13.9% increase for average residential users starting in 2027.

About seven months after learning it's previously awarded $48 million in grant funding had been rescinded, officials seeking to create an aerospace manufacturing hub in Spokane have been rejected again as part of its latest bid to revive the project.

A popular bar and food hall near downtown Pullman is closing at the end of the month.

SEATTLE – A Macy’s store in Tukwila is on the chopping black as part of a slew of closures by the national department store company slated for the new year.

The calls come in with voices that soothe or those that instill fear. Many of the inquiries come with information that puts the recipient at ease, as if it's coming from either a banking institution or government entity with the authority that gives the message gravity. But both are types of contacts are intended to trigger a response: give us money. And they work. 

The cozy coffee shop tucked next door to Ross Dress for Less in the Manito Shopping Center is a dream come true for owners Andrew and Liz Tye.

Minutes after the clock strikes 7 p.m. on Thursday, the often sparse checkout line inside Lucky Asian Mart becomes a long, weaving string of families stretching around the entire diameter of the store.