Publicly-traded companies soon will begin rolling out their fourth-quarter and year-end earnings results en masse, spelling out in dollars and cents how they performed in 2013. As we prepare to review the profits and losses for the 14 publicly-traded comp

Greater Spokane Incorporated announced today that it has begun leading the day-to-day operations of the Spokane STEM Network, a nonprofit organization that works to advance science, technology, engineering, and math learning and innovation. Alisha B

Going into the new year, technology industry observers here say, positive trends in the sector statewide bode well for companies in the Inland Northwest, which they describe on the whole as coming back slowly. Tom Simpson, president of the Spokane Angel

The rate of growth, however, might not keep pace with this year, says Grant Forsyth, regional labor economist for Spokane-based Avista Corp. He's projecting a 1.5 percent increase in employment next year in Spokane and Kootenai counties, which would be

While the state as a whole has become relatively more optimistic about the state of the economy, Eastern Washington businesses are just as pessimistic about it as they were in 2012, says the findings of a survey by the Spokane office of Portland-based Gal