Citing needs to fill community health care and leadership gaps, Inland Northwest universities have launched a cluster of new certificate and degree programs in Spokane in recent months.

At Manito Garden Apartments, a facility for low-income seniors located at 500 E. 29th, the staff and property managers work together to provide and maintain an affordable place for residents to live.

Long-term risk. This refers to the ongoing challenge we always have as investors. It's not what most folks like to hear, but understanding and accepting that there is no way you can control the markets-or your investments-is

The Arc of Spokane is expanding into Spokane Valley with its second thrift store. The Spokane-based nonprofit is leasing the former Safeway grocery store space at 1441 N. Argonne, in the same building as a Rite Aid store and an Altitude trampoline park.

Despite late openings at Spokane-area golf courses, managers are expecting an uptick, compared to last year when courses closed early.

Fifteen months ago, two Spokane women, Aileen Link and Hannah Mackin, launched Mint Interiors Studio LLC to take their interior design careers into their own hands. The opening of their Spokane-based interior design studio, which does business as Mint

Spokane-based nonprofit Excelsior Wellness Center LLC has started the first of three phases of renovations at its campus with a focus on integrating trauma-informed design, an emerging concept within architectural design.

Spokane-based Contract Design Associates Inc., a 43-year-old commercial furniture dealership, has relocated recently into a 16,000-square-foot space in the former Spokesman-Review production building, at 1 N. Monroe downtown.