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Paying off burdensome debt before you retire

Number of retirees with financial obligations soars

December 4, 2014

Spokane-area financial experts say a vast majority of retirees and pre-retirees are increasingly facing retirement with sizable amounts of debt-even student loan debt.

National Safety Council renews alliance with OSHA

Organization, agency align to help workers, employers

November 20, 2014

Staff Report

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and National Safety Council have renewed theirÂ allianceÂ to work together to protect the health and safety of workers and to understand the rights of workers and responsibilities of employers under the Oc

Guide to help employers get workers back on the job

Effort aims to put people on clock within three days

November 20, 2014

Judith Spitzer

A Washington State University Spokane nursing professor has published a guide to help employers and employees with job-related injuries get back to work, using a $138,000 grant from the state's Safety & Health Investment Projects (SHIP) Grant Program.

RevolutionAR looks to reform training practices

Firm uses app-based training to increase safety, efficiency

November 20, 2014

Katie Ross

Liberty Lake startup RevolutionAR Inc. is launching an employee training product, using a technology called augmented reality, with possible implications for how companies conduct safety training.

Coffman Engineers adds fire protection expertise

Company brings formerly contracted services in-house

November 6, 2014

Katie Ross

Coffman Engineers Inc., the multi-city engineering firm with a large office in Spokane, has hired two new senior fire protection engineers, says CEO Dave Coffman.

Hayden design firm adjusts as stability returns

Schools, commercial jobs sustain Longwell+Trapp

November 6, 2014

Mike McLean

Longwell+Trapp Architects PLLC, of Hayden, has seen steady work in both private and publicly funded projects in the last two years, although the company still is leaned out somewhat from the Great Recession, says founding principal Gordon Longwell.

DCI Engineers eyes growth in 2015

Convention Center expansion, downtown hotel among firm's projects

November 6, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Working on projects such as the Spokane Convention Center expansion and the Grand Hotel Spokane, Seattle-based DCI Engineers will bring in revenue this year of $27 million companywide, and the company is poised to see 10 to 15 percent in growth in 2015, s

Percentage of businesses e-filing tax returns grows

Big partnerships showed greatest rate of increase

October 23, 2014

Staff Report

Business tax return e-filing rose nearly 10 percent this year, continuing the growth that has seen the number of corporate and partnership returns filed electronically double in just four years, the Internal Revenue Service says in a news release issued e

Operation Healthy Family expands services

Nonprofit helps youth on three fronts

October 23, 2014

Katie Ross

Spokane faith-based nonprofit Operation Healthy Family is offering a unique blend of programs to try to help strengthen at-risk families and youth, says founder Tommy Williams Jr.

Focusing on hungry kids

Bite 2 Go program gives food to youth for weekends

October 23, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Every Thursday, a volunteer from the Spokane office of Seattle-based accounting firm Moss Adams LLP delivers a car full of food to Cooper Elementary School in Hillyard, providing enough food packages to go in the backpacks of 60 students who have been ide