Northwest Bancorporation Inc., the Spokane-based parent of Inland Northwest Bank, has reported second-quarter net income of $1.05 million, or 16 cents a diluted share, down from income of $1.27 million, or 20 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter.

Insurance broker Vays Sarwar has opened the first Brightway Insurance franchise agency in Washington state here. Called Brightway, The Sarwar Agency, the office is located in a 1,000-square-foot space at 2901 N. Argonne Road, Ste. 3, in Spokane Valley,

Retirement, per se, is still a relatively new phenomenon. Not all that long ago, people pretty much worked until they died. Retirement, as a definite period of your lifetime, is something that only really came into being starting in the 1970s in the U.S.

Georgia-based financial services company World Financial Group Inc. is relocating its Spokane office this week from shared office space with Vorpahl Wing Securities, at 421 W. Riverside, to its own space. Dycelia Weiss, one of two financial agents curr

Hart Capital Management Inc., of Spokane, says the composite value of the 10 publicly traded Inland Northwest companies increased to $11.1 billion in the second quarter of 2017, an increase of $248 million, or 2 percent, from the previous quarter. In the

Despite delays due to a wet spring, this season's outlook is positive for most of the Northwest's food and agricultural industries, says Spokane-based agricultural lender Northwest Farm Credit Services in its latest report. 'We're cautiously opti

Richland-based Gesa Credit Union has opened a Spokane Valley branch in the Banner Center retail plaza at 509 N. Sullivan. The branch occupies the old 2,200-square-foot site of a Banner Bank branch, which closed after the Walla Walla-based bank merged wit

When it comes to financial planning and preparing for the future, many people have the instinct to bury their heads in the sand to avoid the monetary realities of the future. According to a recent retirement study published by Financial Engines Inc., ju