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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.

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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. 

News >  Business

Avista names Rosentrater first female president

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 7, 2023

Avista Corp. on Thursday announced that it had promoted Heather Rosentrater to become the utility company's first female president in its 134-year history. She officially assumes the role on Oct. 1.

News >  Business

The Dirt:Ninja Nation begins remodel to open Spokane franchise

Sun., Sept. 3, 2023

A former contestant on American Ninja Warrior and is wife have begun remodeling a former Huppin's retail store on North Division that will become the first Ninja Nation franchise in the area.

News >  Business

Avista to raise rates Friday for Idaho customers

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 31, 2023

Starting Friday, Avista Utilities customers in Idaho will begin to see the rate increases for electricity and natural gas that regulators approved last June.

News >  Business

The Dirt: Spokane Valley Fire Department starts new training facility

Sun., Aug. 27, 2023

The Spokane County Fire Department has broken ground on a new $8.4 million training facility that is being built near the intersection of East Garland Avenue and North Molter Road in Otis Orchards.

News >  Business

Spokane insurance agencies already working with fire victims

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 23, 2023

While rain on Wednesday brought welcome relief to firefighters battling the Gray and Oregon Road fires, the next step of recovery for hundreds of victims is just beginning: insurance claims.

News >  Business

The Dirt: Large assisted-living facility planned for North Division

Sun., Aug. 20, 2023

Seattle-based Magnet Design and Development is seeking a permit  to build a 123-unit assisted-living facility along North Division in Spokane.

News >  Local business

STCU closing branches Wednesday afternoon

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 15, 2023

STCU announced Tuesday afternoon that it will be closing down all of its branches at 3 p.m. Wednesday for an all-employee gathering to celebrate their work from the previous year.

News >  Business

The Dirt: Travis Pattern and Foundry looking to expand

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 11, 2023

The longtime Spokane-based Travis Pattern and Foundry has submitted a request to Spokane County to build an addition to its existing 170,000-square-foot campus in North Spokane.

News >  Local business

Spokane-based Wheatland Bank may be acquired by Glacier Bancorp

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 8, 2023

The holding company for Spokane's Wheatland Bank announced Tuesday that it has entered an agreement to be acquired by Glacier Bancorp, which is based in Kalispell, Montana, and represents a family of banks that includes North Cascades Bank in Chelan.

News >  Local business

‘It’s never changed since day one’: Monster sandwiches fill Spokane’s appetite for 60 years at Domini’s

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 2, 2024

Each morning about 6 a.m., Tom Domini heads down Spokane’s South Hill and carries on a legacy that started in the late 1940’s.

News >  Business

Farmington State Bank, the tiny Eastern Washington bank tied to FTX collapse, will close

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 7, 2023

Farmington State Bank, with its tiny branch and big online aspirations that ensnared it in the snowballing collapse of cryptocurrency trader FTX and its disgraced CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, has sent letters to its customers announcing its impending closure. 

News >  Health

Colfax pharmacy agrees to pay fine for prescription violations

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 2, 2023

A Colfax-based pharmacy has agreed to pay federal prosecutors a $20,000 fine, and to submit to further monitoring, after it admitted failing to comply with guidelines for confirming prescriptions for narcotics.