At the recently opened Affinity at Mirabeau retirement complex, residents take the lead in planning celebrations, holidays, happy hours, and other activities. 'It really is a community. It's people coming together as neighbors, and they become

Jim Fields stepped into his new role as general manager and CEO of Spokane Valley-based Vera Water & Power on Jan. 1. Fields, 60, took over for Kevin Wells, who retired after 49 years with the utility.

The startup ecosystem here, particularly relating to software and information technology, has benefitted from the emergence of remote and hybrid work, making way for Spokane-based companies to draw on talent from anywhere in the world, some entrepreneurs

Key Tronic Corp. is on the receiving end of a tenfold increase in contract-bidding opportunities as many companies-prompted by production delays, rising costs, and tensions with China-are pulling business out of that country and bringing it back to

Leaders of Spokane Valley-based Numerica Credit Union and Liberty Lake-based STCU are helping grow and shape the influence of their respective financial institutions in the Inland Northwest. Ezra Eckhardt, president and CEO of STCU, says that while the

At the start of the year, Erin Williams Hueter began her duties as the new executive director of the Health Sciences and Services Authority of Spokane County, taking over for the organization's founding director, Susan Ashe.

AgWest Farm Credit, the newly formed agricultural lending association, will focus its resources to enhancing its agricultural customer-owners' access to technology, which will enable them to modernize their growing methods and deliver efficient and