Chad White, former contestant on the 'Top Chef” TV show, says he initially hated working in the culinary world. Now, he can't slow down.

Spokane's Northeast Public Development Authority has a new executive director, Jesse Bank, who says he plans to address some of the biggest problems facing the area, though he faces skepticism from the community.

The Fiesta Charra restaurant, located on Sunset Hill in west Spokane, is being demolished and replaced with a three-story apartment building. Rustle Project LLC, the company behind the Rustle Apartments project, is governed by Mike Schneider

A Boise-based addiction and mental health treatment company has opened a center in the Spokane area specifically for adolescents. Imagine by Northpoint has opened at 924 S. Pines, in Spokane Valley.

McKinstry Co. has doubled the size of the renewables and energy-efficiency team at its Spokane office in the past three years and expects growth in that sector to continue, as recent federal legislation aims to make clean energy technology more

Real estate experts and market observers here predict an impending economic downturn will have a winnowing effect on the industry's workforce, though Spokane's popularity as a target for in-migration could slow the effects of a downturn on the local

Spokane-based bar and taco restaurant Cochinito Taqueria is opening a second location in Hayden this fall, owners Travis Dickinson and Justin Curtis say.

Local entrepreneurs Pete Taylor and Joel Barbour have launched PNW Provisions LLC, a snacks and beverages company that met its $10,000 Kickstarter goal within 24 hours of the crowdsource campaign's launch.