For its latest episode of Elevating The Conversation, the Journal sat down with  Wade Larson, the executive director of the Production & Manufacturing Institute and the owner of Optimal Talent Dynamics, to discuss the Inland Northwest labor market.

Lucky Asian Mart LLC is expanding the region’s culinary landscape, as Spokane entrepreneur Stephanie Nguyen and her son, Jonathan, bring in Asian grocery favorites from the West Side to Eastern Washington.

Last month, the American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center Tech Hub reapplied for federal funding through the U.S. Department of Commerce, seeking $39 million that would help establish a national test bed for next-generation aerospace prototypes in Spokane.

Jeanette Hauck, the CEO of YWCA Spokane, is retiring after a 14-year career with the nonprofit. The Journal sat down with Hauck to discuss why she chose to work in the nonprofit sector, her proudest moments as CEO, and some of the work that YWCA does in the Spokane community.

What started as a side project inspired by San Diego street tacos has become a brick-and-mortar restaurant in downtown Coeur d’Alene.

A proposed 36-unit apartment complex just north of Spokane city limits, meant to fill a middle housing role, is under consideration for a conditional use permit.

For its Economic Outlook episode of Elevating The Conversation, the Journal sat down with Vange Hochheimer, economics and finance professor at Whitworth University and CEO and chief economist at Grand Fir Analytics.

Spokane International Airport has opened its first restaurant in a series of Inland Northwest-based establishments that are planned to operate in the airport's expanded Concourse C gate area in the next year.

Latinos en Spokane, a nonprofit serving the Latino community, has continued to grow despite funding cuts and the country’s current immigration climate, in which the organization’s constituents are being targeted, says Executive Director Jennyfer Mesa.

For its latest episode of Elevating The Conversation, the Journal sat down with Tom Simpson, the CEO of Ignite Northwest and president of the Spokane Angel Alliance, to discuss Spokane's startup scene.