Education & Talent

SCC plans $20 million in upgrades at Old Main Building

New entrance intended to highlight retail spaces

May 25, 2017

Spokane Community College is planning a $20 million expansion and remodeling project that will enlarge and update some instructional spaces in the Old Main Building on the south side of its campus. The SCC campus is located at 1810 N. Greene, and the Ol

Exiting WSU chancellor mulls next challenge

Brown foresees health care remaining big focus for her

May 25, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

As Washington State University Spokane Chancellor Lisa Brown enters her final months in that position, she says timing and opportunity have intersected to mold her time at the school. 'In some ways, I've just been in the right place at the right tim

SCC takes it up a degree with first four-year program

Expanded offering to prep respiratory therapists

May 11, 2017

Treva Lind

Demand for respiratory therapists is growing alongside that discipline's increased educational requirements, soon to be packaged into Spokane Community College's first four-year degree program. Starting next fall, SCC will offer its new bachelor of a

Lydig awarded $25 million Leavenworth school job

Project includes classroom addition, gym improvements

April 27, 2017

Mike McLean

Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. has been awarded a $25 million contract to modernize Cascade High School, in Leavenworth, says Lisa Shier, a project manager for Lydig. The project will include demolishing and replacing the classroom and administrat

Garco to start work soon on $4 million Trinity Catholic School job

Structure to be erected on north Cedar Avenue

April 27, 2017

Spokane-based Garco Construction Inc. soon will start construction on a new building for Trinity Catholic School, in northwest Spokane. The private school, now at 1306 W. Montgomery, will move to a nearby site on what is now the school's current playgr

Budding business people star at Northwest Entrepreneur Competition

GU, Mead High biz plans among this year's winners

April 27, 2017

The annual Northwest Entrepreneurial Competition here netted first-place finishers ranging from a team of Gonzaga University students with their eyes on developing radio frequency technology that can track belongings while you're traveling, to a group o

St. Aloysius school expansion slated

Work to start in mid-June on new gym, classrooms

April 27, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, is set to begin work this summer on a new gym and 'educareâ€ facility at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Catholic School, at 611 E. Mission. Plans on file with the City of Spokane show the project has an estimated total cost

Blending work, play in hobby entrepreneurship

Consider several key factors before launching own venture

April 13, 2017

Guest Writer

Work and hobbies lie at opposite ends of the motivational spectrum. By definition, we go to work to make a living and practice hobbies in our leisure time, primarily for intrinsic enjoyment. Rather than maintaining strict boundaries between work and leisu

WSU adds to research, innovation capabilities in Spokane

New commercialization office hire staying busy

April 13, 2017

LeAnn Bjerken

Washington State University's Office of Commercialization has added a new position to the university's Spokane campus, establishing its first point of contact here for researchers hoping to develop and market new technologies in life science fields.

Space studies blast off at North Idaho STEM Charter Academy

North Idaho STEM Academy to send own satellite into orbit

April 13, 2017

Mike McLean

Students at North Idaho STEM Charter Academy, in Rathdrum, have started up their own space program, dubbed Project DaVinci, and they hope to inspire excitement among younger people around the world about science, technology, engineering, and math-and sp