LaunchNW, an initiative of Spokane-based Innovia Foundation, has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from Ballmer Group to implement a post-high school education support system for students throughout Eastern Washington.

Spokane-based Avista Corp. has reached a settlement agreement with all parties involved in its Idaho general rate cases, the energy company announced in a press release.

More than $82 million in state funding will go toward Spokane-area projects. 

Home sales in the Spokane area this year continue to outpace sales from the same period in 2024.

Two Spokane innovation clusters have garnered infusions of funds through the Washington state Department of Commerce's Innovation Cluster Accelerator Program. 

Kootenai County single-family homes sold this year reached 922 in May, a 2.7% increase compared to the same time last year, according to the latest Market Snapshot from Coeur d’Alene Regional Realtors.

Spokane dermatologist William Philip Werschler, 66, and his associated businesses, have agreed to pay the U.S. government $1.4 million over a claim they misused COVID-19 relief funds.