Paul Read, publisher of the Journal of Business, has been elected president of the Alliance of Area Business Publishers, a national nonprofit organization representing 55 independent magazine and newspaper members in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Read

A preliminary financial report released last month shows revenue and passenger counts at Spokane International Airport are on the rise, with data showing consolidated revenues of nearly $11.5 million through April, about 7.1 percent above budget. Todd W

Linn Parish, who has been deputy editor of the Journal of Business for the last 6 1/2 years, will take over as editor at the beginning of September, succeeding Kim Crompton, who is retiring after nearly 30 years at the Journal. Parish, 46, a veteran Spok

The North Idaho office of staffing recruitment and placement company Express Employment Professionals has moved to Coeur d'Alene from Post Falls. The office, which is a franchise of the Oklahoma City-based company of the same name, now is located in a

Richland-based Gesa Credit Union has opened a Spokane Valley branch in the Banner Center retail plaza at 509 N. Sullivan. The branch occupies the old 2,200-square-foot site of a Banner Bank branch, which closed after the Walla Walla-based bank merged wit

After receiving an initial payment of $40 million from Venezuela on June 15, Spokane-based Gold Reserve Inc. says it has reached another payment arrangement with the financially struggling South American nation. If Venezuela lives up to its word, it will

Prominent Spokane developer Ron Wells says the ownership group he leads has obtained a building permit to convert most of the Ridpath Hotel into downtown workforce apartments, after a protracted effort to consolidate ownership of the Spokane landmark and