Spokane-area educators and business leaders say they're gaining more traction as they create more STEM-science, technology, engineering, and math-opportunities for students as young as kindergarten age. Lisa White, director of Spokane Public School

Demand Energy Networks Inc., the Liberty Lake-based energy-storage company, is expanding into new markets, both in the U.S. and abroad, and currently has $130 million worth of potential projects in its pipeline, says company President and CEO Gregg Patter

Efforts are underway to lift the status of Kootenai County as a national hub for drone technology. Brad Ward, president of Hayden-based Empire Unmanned LLC, contends the Hayden, Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, and Rathdrum area has a collaborative edge ov

The Construction Industry Training Council of Washington is helping more than 100 mostly Spokane-area workers start careers in construction trades with classroom and lab courses at its new Eastern Washington Region facility on the West Plains. CITC, the

Spokane developer Mick McDowell says he plans to construct a 14-story, 50-unit condominium tower west of downtown, uphill from a site where he had proposed a contentious project a decade ago. The latest project, to be called the 1400 Tower, would be loca

Construction projects approaching $250 million are planned or under way in Kootenai County despite having three high-profile projects recently taken off the table in Coeur d'Alene. The north Kootenai County city of Hayden looks to be in position for a