Total employment in the Spokane-Spokane Valley metropolitan statistical area fell in September, as did the unemployment rate.

Numerica Credit Union plans to enter the Sandpoint-area market with a new retail branch next year. 

Pullman, Washington-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. has announced it’s initiating an accelerated hiring program through which the company plans to bring on 400 new employees, about 240 of whom will be in Eastern Washington and northern Idaho. 

Comcast Corp., the Philadelphia-based cable, internet, and phone provider, has opened its third Xfinity store in the Spokane area.