Fourteen years after it was first approved, the Spokane-area foreign trade zone has its first customer. Inland Empire Distribution Systems Inc., a Spokane Valley-based warehousing company whose facility is considered part of the trade zone, this

WTB Financial Corp., the Spokane parent of Washington Trust Bank, has received an $89.1 million infusion from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Small Business Lending Fund. Washington Trust is one of five community banks based in Washington

A group of local investors has started Spokane-based Inland Techstart Fund LLC, a new venture-capital fund that's expected to invest $600,000 in young companies during the next two to three years. Scott Broder, Inland Techstart's chairman, says

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Inland Northwest is well under way on a $1.9 million renovation of its main warehouse facility east of downtown Spokane.Jason Luke Clark, Second Harvest's president and CEO, says the organization is making there &

The Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce expects to start a national search this week for a new president and CEO. Skip Peterson, chairman of the chamber's board of directors, says the organization hopes to have a new leader selected late this year

Megan Cumor didn't know her particular profession had become obsolete until she lost her job in November of 2010.She had worked as a certified nursing assistant for 15 years and at Providence Holy Family Hospital when the North Side hospital had

Spokane-based Inland Imaging LLC has signed a contract to provide radiology services at Samaritan Hospital, in Moses Lake, Wash.Sarah Russell, chief operations officer at Inland Imaging, says the company started handling the hospital's radiology