Five Spokane-area businesses have earned spots on a list of the Fastest-Growing Public Companies based in Washington state published last month by Seattles Puget Sound Business Journal.Eight Spokane-area companies also made the Puget list

Les Schwab Tire Centers Inc., the big Prineville, Ore.-based tire-sales and automotive-repair chain, plans to develop a service center in Airway Heights, just west of Spokane.Dave Husk, the companys director of development, says the outlet be

Slight upward pressure appears to be building on the amounts Spokane-area employers pay both to lower-paid workers and to more highly paid technology workers.Jeff Zahir, the Washington state Employment Security Departments Spokane-based labor

Cyrus Vaughn can almost talk you out of being interested in his storied food-service career. After all, he says, his partner Dave McGann is the reason the North Side Arbys restaurant is the top-grossing store in the entire 3,450-restaurant he

Long regarded as little more than an unpicturesque, roadside appendage to Fairchild Air Force Base, the small town of Airway Heights has been experiencing a rapid climb in development activity recently.Industrial, commercial, and residential of

Spokane might still have a reputation for being an affordable place to buy a home, but for first-time buyers and those with lower incomes, the American dream appears to be getting harder to achieve here these days.The vibrant Spokane-area real

A new Home Depot Inc. store announced for Liberty Lake early this year now is expected to be part of a much bigger, $35 million retail development planned by an out-of-state real estate group. The group, which has formed a joint venture called

More than 58 percent of consumers cite higher co-payments for prescription drugs and physician visits as the most significant change to their health insurance coverage during the past year, according to a survey conducted by national ratings Weiss

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 &