As health-insurance costs have skyrocketed in recent years, activity has surged as well at VEBA Service Group LLC, a Spokane-based medical-benefit company, says Mark Wilkerson, the 21-year-old companys co-owner.VEBA Service Groups annual by

A Spokane-based pilot project aimed at getting injured workers back on the job more quickly is achieving significant results, and the state now wants to expand the programs reach from three counties here to much of Eastern Washington.St. of &

From sending a shoe along with a resume to wearing no footwear at all at an interview, many job candidates have tried unconventional tactics to get a hiring managers attention, the findings from a national survey show.Executives were asked, a

Moody Aviation, the aviation training arm of Chicago-based Moody Bible Institute, has begun the descent toward its new home in Spokane and expects to arrive as scheduled this summer. The flight school, which trains pilots and aviation mechanics

Roger Ingbretsen, a consultant hired by the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, says the manufacturing sector here could be headed toward a labor crisis because the current and future work force lacks basic math, reasoning, and English fewer are

Comcast Corp. plans to roll out a programming-on-demand feature for its cable-TV customers here soon and has introduced new high-speed Internet capabilities for businesses.Ken Rhoades, Comcasts Auburn, Wash.-based area vice president, says on

RnR RV Center has bought 3 1/2 acres of land just west of its dealership in Liberty Lake and has broken ground on a $2.9 million expansion there. Ray Bunney, president of RnR RV, says the expansion involves constructing a 20-bay, service in

The Spokane area stands to get about $10.7 million in new federal transportation money depending on the outcome of congressional negotiations that could take place this month.Both houses of Congress have passed versions of a new, six-year bill,

Spokane-based Weldon Inc. is looking to trim off a share of the mens haircutting market in the Seattle area.Just over six months after the company opened its first six shops, all in the Spokane-Coeur dAlene market, it now hopes to open four

The owners of Fast Frames, a Colville-based embroidery equipment manufacturer, plan to develop a 96,000-square-foot industrial complex this summer on the West Plains and move their operation there. Their project also will include a 400-unit work on