Government is an overachiever in collecting taxes on nearly everything we do. It's hard to imagine anything in our everyday life that isn't taxed. We are taxed for our homes, our property, our cars, our purchases, our earnings, our investments

Washington state faces a serious nursing shortage, and a bill before the state Senate proposes one step toward alleviating the problem by joining 34 other states that have approved the Nursing Licensure Compact.

With no buyer found since the former Hugo's on the Hill went on the market last summer, the bowling alley on the South Hill soon will be demolished. Vandervert Development LLC, which does business as Vandervert Development & Hotels, owns the site

The beer, hard cider, and wine brewing store, HopStop Home Brew & Wine Making Supplies, of Post Falls, is doing better than expected, according to one of the store's co-owners.

Drew Henry and his wife, Cerina Henry, estimate they're two to three years ahead of schedule. Nonetheless, the couple plans to open the doors 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday to the Revival Tea Co., located in 1,800 square feet of space in the basement at 41

The Journal of Business has selected five stalwarts of the Spokane business community as its 2020 class of Icons.

The recently redeveloped, former Costco Wholesale Corp. building on north Division Street has sold to a private investment group in California for $10.2 million.

R&R Custom Lab 2 Inc., which does business as R&R Custom Color Lab, has changed hands. Former owner Steve Riffle retired and sold the business to new owners Erin and Brent Cramer at the beginning of the year.

Spokane Treatment & Recovery Services plans to build a 64-bed, 42,000-square-foot integrated behavioral health treatment facility and medical clinic on East Nora Avenue, in Spokane Valley, and will hire up to 100 new employees to staff the facility.

The composite value of the region's seven publicly traded companies rose 7.7% to $12.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2019, marking the fourth straight quarter in which the composite has risen, according to an analysis by Spokane-based financial