Small business owner Jennifer Gorey specializes in haircuts and other styling services for homebound and special-needs individuals through her mobile salon, Jenn's Mobile Cuts.

Spiceology Inc. CEO Darby McLean says the company’s main challenge these days is predicting and carefully controlling growth.

With a waiting list of over 150 prospective residents, Riverview Retirement Community is meeting demand for senior housing and increasing its expansion project to include a 31-unit luxury condominium complex dubbed The Crest.

Yo Dumplings, a new restaurant that blends Southern smokehouse flavors with Far East cuisine, has opened inside Brick West Brewing Co. in downtown Spokane’s West End.

With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in recent years, Omniscia Health Inc., which does business as Omniscia AI, has expanded beyond its health care roots and landed customers in the financial services and sports sectors, positioning the Colbert-based startup for scaled growth this year, says CEO Brandon Tanner.

After nearly 32 years under the leadership of Ira and Susan Amstadter, Spokane-based A.I.S. Inc., which operates as Express Employment Professionals, has been purchased by their daughter Beverly Amstadter, who took over operations in at the end of the year.

Random-access memory, or RAM, components essential in consumer and commercial computers have tripled or even quadrupled in price since early 2025 due to an explosion of artificial intelligence data center construction across the country, and local computer supply and information technology companies are feeling the squeeze.

Five months following the opening of JamPod, a music rehearsal space at 2012 E. Sprague, Spokane entrepreneur Charlie Lindsley is expanding the business with the launch of a new indoor market at the East Central venue.

Missoula, Montana-based Tagliare Delicatessen, an award-winning Italian deli known for its classic rock-themed sandwiches and house-made sauces, will open its third location — the company's first in Washington state — in February.