While many of us see the value in planning ahead for life's big events, when it comes to preplanning a funeral, funeral home operators here say most people are still reluctant. 'A lot of people are in denial they're going to die one day, and others

The founders of Arevo Health LLC, the cloud-based software startup company that began here in 2013, say they've secured important new investments that will support the company's continued growth and expansion. Company CEO Ryan Fix says the company

A new 15,700-square-foot Duluth Trading Co. workwear and accessories retail store is in development in Spokane Valley, says Marc Cable, project manager with Illinois-based Interwork Architects Inc., the company that designed the project. The project site

Spokane-based Riverview Retirement Community plans to open its new $7 million, 20-bed memory care facility next month. Spokane-based contractor Bouten Construction Co. recently completed constructing the 20,000-square-foot Riverview Memory Care facility

Attorney Mary Schultz says plaintiffs in whistleblower cases should be praised. 'They're in really difficult positions, but everyone is relying on them,” says Schultz. '… When we put money into corporations, we expect them to be honest.”

Sisters Marina TurningRobe and Monica Simeon's roots run deep in Indian Country, and that strongly influences their business, Sister Sky Enterprises Inc., they say. What started nearly two decades ago with two sisters creating natural

With higher wages in other specialties, a growing workforce void, and an increasingly large retiring population, among other factors, the retirement industry has seen a serious nursing and aid shortage, some industry professionals here say.

Jacob Rooksby, new dean of the Gonzaga University School of Law, says he's looking forward to finding ways to make the school more innovative and to integrate it more fully into the Spokane and Gonzaga communities. Rooksby was hired in June as dean

With breweries popping up all over the Inland Northwest, area hop growers say commercial hop-growing operations could germinate here-if only someone could provide a processing facility for small volumes of hops or invest the amount of capital necessary

National Furniture Store Inc., the Spokane furniture retailer known for its 'No Baloney” tagline, plans to close its doors this November, following a three-month liquidation sale. While the store's owner, Mark Barnes, says the closure is mostly an