As a professor at Whitworth, Vange Ocasio Hochheimer strives to equip students to be critical thinkers with tools to enhance what works and to challenge and fix what doesn’t.

Jerry Dicker has been a champion of Spokane's downtown entertainment district since acquiring the Hotel Ruby in 2010.

John J. Hemmingson, an entrepreneur, business executive, and philanthropist, is co-founder and CEO of Lakeside Cos., which spans multiple business sectors.

Purcell co-founder Pete Chase is leading a new venture serving the telecommunications industry.

Gravity Jack is developing a globally targeted augmented reality game that will feed the company's language processing engines for 7,000 languages “that big tech doesn’t really care about.”

Kootenai County’s economy continued to plot a steady path of growth in 2023 and faces a favorable outcome in the coming year.

Reports from mining companies in North Idaho suggest activities will increase in 2024.

The economy here is expected to improve in some metrics here in 2024 although it faces persistent challenges in interest rates, inflation fears, and labor shortages.

While Harlan Douglass had a reputation as a tough and controversial businessperson, the Spokane man who built a billion-dollar real estate empire was “just a normal guy” to his friends and occasionally enjoyed a good prank, even if it was on himself.

Safeguard Equipment Inc., the Post Falls maker of personal devices that detect electrocution hazards, has upgraded its core product to provide additional safety features and is expanding its markets both beyond utility-industry customers and into new geographic territories.