Education & Talent

$35 million University District project envisioned

Work to start next month on new six-level structure

February 25, 2021

A development team is planning a $35 million apartment complex at the former Umpqua Bank branch site on Riverside Avenue, on the western edge of the University District and near the east end of downtown Spokane.

Gonzaga endeavors to advance entrepreneurship

New facility will promote theoretical, applied work

February 11, 2021

Pete Tormey

With more than two decades of experience developing leaders through the Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, Gonzaga University is doubling down on preparing innovators in business, engineering, and science with a $49.7 million investment

Liberty Lake Children's Academy plans to expand

Preschool to occupy part of multitenant building in River District development

February 11, 2021

Virginia Thomas

Plans are underway to construct a building that will be the second location for a Liberty Lake-based preschool in the River District development. Teri Finch, owner of Liberty Lake Children's Academy LLC, says the expansion is necessary because the flag

Palisades Christian Academy multiuse facility nears completion

Some fundraising ongoing for $2.3 million building

January 28, 2021

Kevin Blocker

A representative of a west Spokane private school says officials there are confident they can secure funding commitments to complete the finishing touches on a $2.3 million multipurpose building currently under construction.

HOPE School to move to new home in East Spokane

Design Source to take building along Fifth

January 28, 2021

Kevin Blocker

For the second time in its nearly 17-year history, the Spokane Hearing Oral Program of Excellence is on the move to a bigger location. Started in 2004, HOPE offers early intervention auditory and language therapy for children with deafness

Federal student aid system undergoes overhaul

Bill expands eligibility for federal Pell Grants

January 28, 2021

Natasha Nellis

Several policy changes were included in the recently approved 2021 Omnibus spending bill that will ease the federal student aid application process and expand Pell Grant eligibility, industry observers here say.

Q&A with Economist Vange Ocasio Hochheimer

Associate professor of economics at Whitworth University

December 17, 2020

Virginia Thomas

Vange Ocasio Hochheimer teaches economics at Whitworth University, but the roots she's put down in Spokane over the past decade extend beyond the university's campus. Ocasio Hochheimer spent much of her childhood in Puerto Rico. As an adult, she

WSU works with Native groups on curbing virus

Buchwald has spent decades working in focused specialty

December 3, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Born to German parents who immigrated to the U.S. at the end of World War II, Dr. Dedra Buchwald says it's often easy for her to understand some of the issues facing the Native American Indian populations she partners with to improve health.

SCC's Old Main building made sustainable through its reinvention

High-tech features give promising future to venerable building

November 19, 2020

Jeff Hyslop

Affectionately referred to as 'Old Main,â€ the Spokane Community College main building has been a well-used classroom space for years. The original structure served a steady stream of students and community members for nearly seven decades.

WSU study: Holiday shoppers to change their habits

77% of respondents say they'll skip in-store buying on Black Friday this year

November 19, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Even before Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's restrictions limiting in-store retailers to 25% of occupancy in the effort to combat COVID-19, the Washington State University Carson College of Business' yearly holiday retail report revealed most shoppers