Menlo Park, Calif.-based development, design, and construction company Katerra Inc. has acquired Spokane design firm Nystrom+Olson Architecture and plans to grow a permanent presence here, the company announced recently. Now renamed Katerra Spokane, Nyst

Did you know there's an estimated 75 million baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, that are winding down their careers and approaching retirement in the United States? That means today's 40 million senior citizens will swell to roughly 89 millio

Retirement, per se, is still a relatively new phenomenon. Not all that long ago, people pretty much worked until they died. Retirement, as a definite period of your lifetime, is something that only really came into being starting in the 1970s in the U.S.

Dr. Heavin Maier, owner of Spokane optometry practice Eyes for Life PS, has bought a two-story, 5,900-square-foot building at 412 E. 30th, where she hopes to move the practice in September. Eyes for Life currently occupies about 1,800 square feet of spac

The Legislature took longer than anyone wanted to finish its priority project-the two-year state operating budget. None of us wanted to see that, but good results came of that extra time: a bipartisan budget and tax plan that not only put record amou

Close observers of Spokane-area business happenings have to feel a bit shell-shocked following the announced sales so far this year of three key longtime employers here-Telect Inc., Avista Corp., and Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories-to far-of

Georgia-based financial services company World Financial Group Inc. is relocating its Spokane office this week from shared office space with Vorpahl Wing Securities, at 421 W. Riverside, to its own space. Dycelia Weiss, one of two financial agents curr

David Magley, president and CEO of the upstart North American Premier Basketball league, envisions a semipro team here made up of former collegiate-area players. 'There are markets across the country that I believe would love to have the opportunity to

Marijuana retail sales in Spokane County increased by 57 percent during the 2017 Washington state fiscal year, which ended June 30. While sales continued to climb quickly in the latest 12-month period, the growth rate was down sharply from the 2016 fisca