With an ever-increasing customer demand for electricity, Spokane-based Avista Corp. is updating and modernizing the electrical grid that powers the city, says Heather Rosentrater, of Avista. Rostentrater is senior vice president of energy delivery and

The Journal of Business has selected its 2022 class of Rising Stars. They are: •Jessica Atkinson, CEO, Sweet Frostings. •Justin Botejue, physician relations liaison, Shriner's Children's Spokane.

Potential investors live in rural areas, but identifying, reaching, and educating them is a challenge, experts here say. It's a challenge that Washington State University and sp3nw are taking on through a new initiative.

A Spokane-based company has raised a total of $800,000 in funding for an electric flossing device, which is awaiting patents, and the owners hope to begin sales of the device to consumers by fall.

Ten years ago, when she was 12, Brooke Martin invented a device that let dog owners video chat with their pets and give them treats remotely. The company that was formed around that invention, iCPooch, exploded in popularity, but fell quickly.

Cybersecurity is here to stay. However, there are large problems with how we see cybersecurity threats as rare, occasional awareness events and how businesses treat that risk.

Pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging company Jubilant HollisterStier LLC plans to double its injectable filling production capacity by 2025 with a $193 million expansion project at its East Spokane plant.

Collaboration between entrepreneurs, businesses, universities, and government agencies is fundamental to creating and attracting startup companies. Prioritizing the formation of new businesses is essential to economic growth as startups account for the

OpenEye, a Liberty Lake-based video-surveillance technology manufacturer and software development company, is in the midst of an aggressive recruiting initiative to boost its engineering and sales workforce by year-end, says founder and CEO Rick Sheppard.

Less than a year after buying the shuttered Katerra plant in Spokane Valley, Mercer Mass Timber LLC plans to invest $50 million in capital projects at the cross-laminated timber factory over the next two years.