In response to surging demand for recreational spaces in Eastern Washington, Innovia Foundation is helping to facilitate a donor-initiated proposal to build a 65,000-square-foot two-sheet ice facility near Spokane Valley Valley Mall.

A year after setting out to build drive-thru tea shops in Arizona, Revival Tea Co. founder Andrew Henry is steering his company in a new direction — toward the Midwest.

Greg Hansen, the chief credit officer at Numerica Credit Union, has retired after nearly 16 years at the Spokane Valley-based financial institution.

The first phase of Greenstone Corp.'s newest 55-plus residential community, dubbed Trutina at North Place, is underway in North Idaho.

Spokane’s culinary scene will warm up just in time for winter with the addition of a new ramen restaurant in the Washington Cracker Co. building at 304 W. Pacific, in downtown Spokane.

Every year for the past decade, Spokane Boxing Gym LLC has grown a little bigger, drawn a little more attention, and pulled in students from farther afield. For owner Rick Welliver, the numbers matter less than witnessing and being a part of the transformation of many of his students.

Late last month, the Journal sat down with Craig Soehren, a real estate broker at Spokane-based commercial real estate agency Kiemle Hagood, for its most recent episode of the Elevating The Conversation podcast about the Inland Northwest office market.

Crêpe Café Sisters is getting ready to open its second brick-and-mortar location in an area where the company got its start 23 years ago: Liberty Lake.

Brian Jon Garvey has come up with his next invention: a dual-propulsion fin system that could power Navy SEALs through the ocean at 15 mph, dubbed JetFinz. 

Smoking Monkey Pizza, an award-winning restaurant founded in Renton, Washington, has expanded to the Inland Northwest with the opening of its third location — this one across from The Davenport Hotel.