Spokane has held its own compared with peer metropolitan areas when it comes to criteria that measure such things as business growth, education, prosperity, quality of life, and basic needs, a new report issued by Greater Spokane Incorporated 20 in

Itron Inc. has started up an additional production line at its Waseca, Minn., plant to increase its production of electric circuit boards for its Open Way utility meters, which are part of its smart-grid technology offerings. The Liberty Lake-based

April 19 / Children's initiative backers target later vote Advocates of the Children's Investment Fund Initiative said they had gathered 8,200 signatures on petitions, short of the 12,000 signatures they had sought, and now hope to get

Meetings & Events The Washington State University College of Business will hold a breakfast meeting on Thursday, April 22, at 7:30 a.m., at The Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post, in Spokane. Tom Fritz, of Inland Northwest Health Services, a

Decades of progress may have earned women their place at the office, but haven't won them an equal partnership in the home, and that puts hard-working women at a distinct disadvantage to their male peers.Youngjoo Cha, Cornell doctoral candidate