Colleges and universities here mostly are seeing big enrollment gains for the fall term, and in some cases are reporting record enrollment. Junior colleges, especially, are reporting a surge in enrollment as the poor economy gives more people a to

Staffing agencies here say they're seeing strong growth in demand for temporary help, but not for permanent hires.Provisional Staffing Services Inc., of Spokane, which does business as Provisional Recruiting + Staffing and recruits applicants so

During the years in which Jon Hippler has guided Mountain West Bank, of Coeur d'Alene, one lesson he's learned has stood out to him above all others.As a CEO, he says, he has maintained a clear vision of the bank's culture—"first and to be

Credit union executives here say a plan announced in September by the agency that regulates their institutions will stabilize and strengthen credit unions while keeping member deposits safe, but they will have to carve large assessments out of over

The Spokane Angel Alliance, a nonprofit entity set up to help fund promising companies here and a bulked-up successor to the Delta Angel Group, has gotten off to an encouraging start in its first year, says Tom Simpson, who spearheaded its already