It wasn't what she originally planned upon starting her own business three years ago, but Spokane Valley resident and entrepreneur Karen Herford now is using her skillset in the hospitality industry and applying it to a second job working with homeless

Several large hotel brands have begun experimenting with digital key technology here, which enables hotel guests to enter their room by holding their smartphone to the lock, rather than using the traditional plastic key card. Hotel representatives here

The Knitting Factory Concert House Spokane, which is known as a venue for showcasing an eclectic array of regional and nationally touring performing artists, also has become a rental venue and service provider for local private events, says Annie Christy,

Spokane-area lenders say they've recently been approving more applications for home equity lines of credit, commonly referred to as HELOC loans, reminiscent of around the time of the Great Recession. 'We're seeing home equity lines of credit reach

Following several years of increased demand for commercial lending services here, several credit unions say they're looking to put greater emphasis on building up that portion of their loan portfolios. Lynn Heider, vice president of public relations a

U.S. Small Business Administration-backed lending has started strong in 2017, and demand for the guaranteed loans looks to remain steady, some top SBA lenders here say. Ted Schinzel, SBA's Spokane branch manager, says, however, that although 2017 has s

Heather Stratford-Geibel is a rarity in her profession. She is CEO of IT Training Solutions, a Spokane-based company that specializes in cybersecurity, but also provides instruction and consulting in other facets of information technology. Research shows

As New Jersey businesses struggled to recover from Superstorm Sandy in late 2012, Mark Jacobus says he felt motivated to launch a company to help businesses and organizations secure programs and systems to ensure they can rely on backup power when the gri

Nancy Connors still periodically laughs at herself when she thinks about the fact that not only does she own a security business, but she's been running it for just a little more than 20 years now. Connors says she's quiet and shy by nature and never