Five years after quietly moving its corporate headquarters to Denver and divesting of its Spokane properties, Red Lion Hotels Corp.'s franchise platform is being hailed as the engine through which its new owner intends to continue growing. Red Lion

Ben Small, longtime superintendent at Central Valley School District, will join the Innovia Foundation as executive director of a new program, LaunchNW, when he retires from CVSD at the end of the school year.

Women Helping Women Fund has transformed its model to a collective-giving community, a model the organization says gives more power to its donor members.

Jan St. George has decided to retire after 17 years of working, managing, and ultimately owning and operating the Whiz Kids toy store located on the third floor of River Park Square Mall. She recently turned 63 years old.

Kootenai Humane Society is constructing a new $8 million, 20,000-square-foot facility at 10276 N. Atlas Road, in Hayden. Construction began in November at the 10-acre site just west of the Coeur d'Alene Airport, says Vicky Nelson

Coeur d'Alene Window Co. is growing quickly as it expands into new markets, say brothers Mark and Mike McVay, the president and director of sales, respectively, of the Spokane-based window manufacturer.

Businesses, organizations, and individuals didn't stop giving to local nonprofits in support of capital campaigns throughout the pandemic, as evidenced by at least four nonprofits who are in the midst of construction or have recently completed

OpenEye, a Liberty Lake-based video-surveillance technology manufacturer and software development company, is in the midst of an aggressive recruiting initiative to boost its engineering and sales workforce by year-end, says founder and CEO Rick Sheppard.

Initial site work has begun on what will be a 22,000-square-foot indoor family amusement park in Spokane Valley. Tim Homer, owner of party equipment rental store All-Star Jump, says he hopes to open Flight 509 Adventure Park in spring 2023. Concrete foot

At least five stores that sell groceries in Spokane County are moving forward with plans to update and remodel seven buildings in projects valued at over $14 million, public records show. Design plans for the tenant improvements show a trend of adding