As a generation of aviation maintenance professionals retires, demand for new employees with those skill sets has surged, says Andy Dodson, chair of Spokane Community College's aviation department and full-time faculty member.

Donald G. Brumback, who goes by Gib, remembers when his son Nicholas Brumback was 10 years old and would ask, 'Dad! Why don't you build a skyscraper?” Gib says he would respond, 'Son, that's just not where we're at,” referring to the lack

For every three cybersecurity professionals working in the Spokane and Spokane Valley metro area, there is one additional job opening, according to CyberSeek, a U.S.-based platform providing insight into the national and local cybersecurity job markets.