Construction of Spokane’s next dog park is expected to begin in mid-2025 and wrap up two to three months later.

As the Eastern Washington COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force approaches its third year of cracking down on thefts of COVID-relief funding there’s no slowdown to prosecutions in sight.

Clearwater Paper Corp. is planning a $4 million tenant improvement project at the company's headquarters in the Bank of America business center at 601 W. Riverside, in downtown Spokane.

Susan Meyer, CEO of the Spokane Transit Authority, will retire at year-end, after leading the STA for 19 years. 

Certified sommeliers Justine Recor and her mother Cathy Hand plan to open Cellar & Scholar this month at 15412 E. Sprague, in the Sullivan Square Shopping Center.

Kimco Realty Corp. is planning the interior renovation of a 22,800-square-foot vacant retail space, at 5630 N. Division, in the Franklin Park Commons shopping center on Spokane's North Side.

Spokane area apartment vacancy rates are returning to normal this year as multifamily construction projects wrap up and add new units to the housing supply, however affordability concerns are still straining the market, some market observers here say. 

Whitworth University has received a $3.4 million grant to establish a new program to address critical mental health needs of students in rural communities and refugee and immigrant students in Spokane County schools.  

Inland Northwest Culinary Academy at Spokane Community College is working to meet the demands of an industry that is largely in need of more labor.