Education & Talent

Avista makes investment in educating prospective entrepreneurs

Students exposed to business practices, real experience

May 8, 2014

Steven Walton, a Dishman Hills High School senior in Spokane Valley, wants to build a business to provide fresh, home-cooked, healthy meals delivered right to your door. Seiji Furukawa, a sophomore at Spokane Valley Tech, dreams of creating a center whe

SNAP Financial Access opens Women's Business Center

Program will offer planning assistance, training classes

April 24, 2014

Katie Ross

SNAP Financial Access has launched a Women's Business Center here that's intended to be a resource for female business owners or women who want to start a business, says Laurie Roth, manager of the center. The center opened earlier this month in the

$15 million health clinic envisioned in Spokane's U-District

Consortium of major players hopes to open facility in '16

April 24, 2014

Linn Parish

A community consortium that includes some of Spokane's largest players in the health care field are planning a $15 million primary-care clinic in Spokane's University District that would serve as a training ground for new physicians and other emerging

Washington state's first charter school targets fall 2015 opening

PRIDE Prep founder work to raise its startup funds

April 10, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Organizers of Spokane-based PRIDE Prep School of Technology and Science, the first charter school approved in Washington state, are laying the groundwork now to open in the fall of 2015. Led by former Spokane public school teacher and administrator Bre

Helping children with autism find their voice

Graduate students assist pre-K autistic children with verbalization skills

April 10, 2014

Katie Ross

Washington State University Spokane has partnered with Northwest Autism Center, of Spokane, to launch an interdisciplinary program for speech and hearing sciences graduate students to gain hands-on experience while helping children with autism spectrum di

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories to improve power grid at Stanford University

Work to enable centralized control of campus system

April 10, 2014

Mike McLean

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc., the Pullman-based producer of energy protection equipment and systems, is working on a power-grid upgrade for Stanford University campus in the heart of Silicon Valley, says Eddie Schweitzer, SEL business developm

Meridian Construction wins contract to construct gym at Salk Middle School

$6.1 million junior high job to be finished late this year

April 10, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Spokane Public Schools has accepted a $6.1 million bid from Meridian Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, to build a gymnasium at Salk Middle School, on Spokane's North Side, says Greg Brown, the district's director of capital projects. The total pro

Education projects in region are going strong

Gonzaga, Spokane Public Schools construction contributing heavily to mix

March 13, 2014

Treva Lind

Capital projects in the education sector this year are robust in number and scope, with about $300 million in projects under way or expected to begin, including major construction jobs for Gonzaga University and Spokane Public Schools. The Spokane school

WSU Spokane starts work on master-plan update

College looks to address future needs at Riverpoint

February 13, 2014

Mike McLean

Following the opening of its $79 million Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences Building on the Riverpoint Campus east of downtown late last year, Washington State University Spokane has started its next master-plan update. The focus of the master plan

Mullan Road school remodel set to start this spring on South Hill

Spokane contractors team up to handle $17 million project

January 16, 2014

Treva Lind

Spokane Public Schools has selected WLK Joint Ventures, a Spokane-based partnership of Walker Construction Inc. and Leone & Keeble Inc., as general contractor and construction manager for a Mullan Road Elementary School renovation and addition project. G