Starting next month, Whitworth University, in partnership with the University of Washington and the Eastern Washington Procurement Technical Assistance Center, will offer a new business certificate program downtown that's targeted at owners or of a

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., an Itasca, Ill.-based international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, has acquired Spokane-based VEBA Service Group LLC, a medical-benefit company.The terms of the transaction weren't disclosed. do

Seattle-based investment brokerage McAdams Wright Ragen Inc. has opened a Spokane office, hiring a group of brokers who previously worked in the Wells Fargo Advisors office here. Tom Guthrie, branch manager of the Spokane office, says the firm a

Telect Inc., the Liberty Lake-based developer and manufacturer of communications networking equipment, says it has opened a new operational development center in Spokane Valley.Telect has an initial staff of 10 employees at the center, which of

May 22 / Employment here climbsAbout 204,800 people held nonagricultural wage and salary jobs in the Spokane area in April, up about 400 from the prior month but down about 700 from the April 2011 level, preliminary state figures said. results