Spokane County has some altitude to climb to close a wage disparity with the West Side and the nationwide average hourly wage, the latest data show, but regional economists and business leaders say they aren't overly concerned. Rather, observers
Vivint Inc., a large, privately-held Provo, Utah-based home-automation system maker, plans to open a sales call center in Liberty Lake this summer that it expects will employ 400 people within 18 months.Eric Patrick, Vivint's senior vice of says
Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based electronic services manufacturing company, announced this afternoon it has agreed to buy the assets of Sabre Manufacturing, a sheet metal fabrication company in Juarez, Mexico.The $5.1 million transaction
May 21 / Employment here risesAbout 209,800 people held nonagricultural wage and salary jobs in the Spokane area in April, up by 3,600 from the April 2012 level and by 2,700 from March this year, preliminary state figures show. Preliminary from
Meetings & EventsThe Structural Engineers Foundation of Washington will host Behind the Scenes Stories of Washington State's Latest Generation of Unusual Buildings on Tuesday, May 28, at 5 p.m., in the Isabella Room at the Davenport Hotel, 10 S.
Spokane tea house set to open in JuneSilver Spoon Tea House LLC, of Spokane, is scheduled to open June 1 in a historic lower South Hill home and plans to serve tea with bakery sweets and tiny sandwiches in an antique-parlor setting.Silver Tea
Spokane Valley-based N&N Excavation LLC is the apparent low bidder on a $1.8 million city project to replace water main pipe near Gonzaga Preparatory School, says city spokeswoman Julie Happy.The project taking place will affect a roughly 1 of a
Meridian Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, is the apparent low bidder on a $5.5 million project to construct a 22,000-square-foot addition to a student services building at Spokane Community College, in East Spokane.Dennis Dunham, Community
During part of the keynote address at Greater Spokane Incorporated's Manufacturing Expo earlier this month, Pearson Packaging Systems Inc. CEO Michael Senske mentioned Spokane's quality of life as one of the Inland Northwest's positive attributes.
Two Inland Northwest tourism services are sharing resources in a joint effort to provide unique travel opportunities to visitors to the region.Framework LLC, which does business as Framework Meetings & Destinations, and ROW Inc., doing business