As the effects of the coronavirus continue to reshape our world, several factors are accelerating the shift to a more digital, hybrid future in Spokane.

It's a beautiful spring morning in the Inland Northwest. The year is 2030. As your morning alarms goes off, and you get out of bed, your smart device announces that you have a prescription delivery. Just a few hours earlier, while you were sleeping

Work by a city-appointed group tasked with exploring options for a fiber optic network has been on hold since the pandemic began. But City Council President Breean Beggs anticipates the city will revisit the subject and perhaps regroup this spring.

A Spokane couple plans to construct a three-story, 23-unit apartment building at 155 E. Cleveland, in Spokane's Logan neighborhood, says property co-owner David Tucker.

While student loan debt continues to rise and impact borrowers of all ages, the debt growth has been highest among older borrowers, says a report by AARP Public Policy Institute.

Longtime brokers Marianne and Chris Bornhoft have opened a new commercial real estate company, Bornhoft Real Estate, which does business as Bornhoft Commercial, in Spokane. Commercial real estate, specifically investment property, multifamily property

Peter Froese, the owner and chef at Spokane restaurant Gander & Ryegrass, has opened a "fancy dive bar" in a minuscule space in the downtown core.

U.S. Small Business Administration-backed lending had a strong year in 2021 and is keeping up pace so far this year, some SBA lending officials here say.