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Clearwater Paper purchases Georgia paperboard facility

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 23, 2024

Clearwater Paper Corp. announced this week that it has purchased a Georgia-based paperboard-manufacturing facility for about $700 million.

Sports >  NCAA

State hearing highlights divergent fortunes of WSU and UW in new era of college athletics

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 21, 2024

Facing $100 million in debt and an uncertain athletic future after the Pac-12 Conference imploded, Washington State University officials told state lawmakers Wednesday that they will channel their inner underdogs and do what 'Cougs' have always done: persevere.

News >  Spokane

Visionary Spokane downtown preservationist Ron Wells, who later was disgraced in fraud scam, dies

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 14, 2024

Historic buildings of Spokane have lost their greatest advocate. 

Sports >  Area sports

Attorneys close to completing Idaho volleyball interviews as former players reflect on coach’s abuse allegations

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 14, 2024

Shannon Webb inadvertently helped recruit two players into her personal "nightmare" that is now the subject of an investigation of alleged verbal and physical abuse against Idaho women's volleyball coach Chris Gonzalez. 

News >  Weather

Forecaster: Spokane area to get warm spring, dry summer

UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 6, 2024

The Weather Man brought farmers a typhoon of mostly good news during his annual address Tuesday, but he also warned that a new perpetual cycle of weather has emerged that is conducive to the continued threat of wild fires in the Pacific Northwest.

News >  Higher education

Judge rules for University of Idaho in open records case involving University of Phoenix deal

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 31, 2024

Idaho Board of Education members did not violate Idaho's Open Meeting Law when they conducted three secret meetings last year to discuss the potential purchase of the University of Phoenix, a judge has ruled.

News >  Business

Chick-fil-A owners seek building permit on the South Hill as effort to quash drive-thrus picks up steam in neighborhood

UPDATED: Mon., Jan. 29, 2024

What came first, the Chick-fil-A or the newly hatched plan that would prohibit drive-thru businesses on East 29th Avenue on Spokane’s South Hill?

News >  National business

Why U.S. union membership has dipped to a record low despite recent high-profile wins

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 24, 2024

In a year full of worker stoppages from the writer's and actor's strikes in Los Angeles to Midwest autoworkers, it seemed like unions had somehow figured out how to claw back into labor discussions as the economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

News >  Business

The Dirt: New apartments coming on former Spokane property

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 25, 2024

A site long used by the city of Spokane's fleet of snow plows and other vehicles is about to become a very large. multi-family housing complex, according to permit requests submitted earlier this month.

Sports >  NCAA

University of Idaho president urges patience during volleyball investigation

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 19, 2024

The president of Idaho for the first time on Friday commented about months-long inquiry into claims of physical and emotional abuse lodged by several members of the women's volleyball team against their coach.

News >  Local business

Avista seeks electricity and gas rate increases

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 19, 2024

Avista Utilities is seeking two new rounds of rate increases, for both electricity and natural gas, that would make it much more expensive for Spokane area residents to heat their homes and keep lights illuminated.

Sports >  NCAA

University of Idaho won’t force volleyball players to practice before embattled coach

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 18, 2024

University of Idaho women's volleyball players learned after a 9 p.m. message Wednesday that those named in complaints alleging abuse against their coach wouldn'twill not have to practice in front of him on Thursday.

Sports >  NCAA

‘Fighting for what I know is right’: Idaho volleyball players will face coach accused of abuse

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 18, 2024

Emma Patterson, a 22-year-old senior from Boise, will walk into Memorial Gym on the campus of University of Idaho in Moscow on Thursday and practice in front of a volleyball coach that she personally accused of physical and emotional abuse against both her and her teammates.

News >  Local business

Customers help Avista avert natural gas crisis over weekend cold snap: ‘We know it was a hardship’

Wed., Jan. 17, 2024

The message came in at about 12:30 p.m. on Friday – the pipeline that provides natural gas for about 377,000 Avista customers across four states had lost a compressor station in Canada just as the region's temperatures began to plunge.

News >  Business

Spokane home sellers expect tough sledding early into next year

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 22, 2023

Forces that slowed the the local housing market may be thawing, but homebuyers in the Spokane area likely won't see much relief in the first three months of 2024, a local real estate official said.

News >  Local business

Like the nation’s, Spokane’s 2023 economy exceeded expectations

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 18, 2023

A year ago, Avista chief economist Grant Forsyth counted himself among those prognosticators who thought the Spokane area would enter a recession at some point in 2023.

Sports >  NCAA

Washington Supreme Court hands control over Pac-12 back to WSU, OSU in momentous ruling

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 15, 2023

The Washington Supreme Court gave Washington State and Oregon State another victory Friday over the control of what's left of the Pac-12 Conference when it ruled to reinstate the two schools' voting power over rest of the league.

News >  Business

The Dirt: Home brewer expanding operations downtown Spokane

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 30, 2023

A permit has been submitted to the City of Spokane to remodel the bottom floor of a building at 1229 W. 1st Ave., into a brewery, taproom and brewing supply business.

News >  Local business

Harlan Douglass dies at 86; real estate empire maker leaves lasting legacy in Spokane area

Wed., Nov. 29, 2023

In his youth, Harlan Douglass would visit construction sites and pick up spent nails. He'd take them home and straighten them out. Those things cost money that he wouldn't have to spend when he built homes

News >  Business

Spokane soccer team owners name investment group

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 25, 2023

The ownership team of Spokane's women's and men's United Soccer League teams announced Tuesday a new investment team that includes several former athletes, including a couple former Gonzaga Bulldogs.

News >  Local business

North Idaho favorite Birdie’s Pie Shop opens new store in Spokane

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 15, 2023

Birdie's has taken flight, again.

News >  Local business

Visit Spokane hires new VP of marketing

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 14, 2023

Visit Spokane, the official destination marketing and management organization for Spokane County, announced this week that Jeff Hawley has been hired as its new vice president of marketing.

News >  Local business

The Dirt: The Human Bean coffee shop coming to Northwest Boulevard

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 15, 2023

A Spokane couple has wiped their slate clean, quite literally, and will be starting a new business in the empty lot where the old one once stood, at the southwest corner of the intersection of Northwest Boulevard and T.J. Meenach Drive.

News >  Business

The DIrt: New 201-unit apartment building planned in Spokane

Sun., Sept. 10, 2023

Construction has begun on a new 32-unit apartment building in Spokane Valley on a frontage road near the Pines Road intersection with Interstate 90.

News >  Local business

Spokane Realtors giving grants to help fire victims

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 8, 2023

Spokane Realtors has begun accepting applications that could provide up to $2,000 for victims of both the Gray and Oregon Road fires.