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Karina Elias

Karina Elias

Reporter Karina Elias covers the banking and finance industry. A California native, she attended the University of California at Santa Barbara. Karina loves salsa dancing, traveling, baking, cuddling with her dog, and writing creative fiction and non-fiction.  

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Return-retail boom hits Spokane

Local entrepreneurs create big business from big returns
July 3, 2025
Karina Elias

Over the past few years, Spokane has seen a growing trend in return retail or “reverse logistics” stores where overstocked, returned or liquidated goods are resold at a deep discount. 



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Startup builds tool to streamline health care credentialing

Credential Network aims to fix delays in process
July 3, 2025
Karina Elias

Spokane-based health tech startup Credential Network has secured a $250,000 grant from the Health Sciences & Services Authority of Spokane County to expand its team and establish its headquarters in the region. 


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Kittelson & Associates paves the way for safer streets

Spokane office leading studies and projects in the region for more walkable, pedestrian friendly roads
July 3, 2025
Karina Elias

Two years ago, Kittelson & Associates, Inc., quietly opened its first Washington office in Spokane. 
Today, the team of transportation engineers and planners is helping reshape the region’s roadways from recommending improvements on a single intersection to guiding regional plans for safer, more walkable neighborhoods.  


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Catching up with: Gonzaga legend Dan Dickau

Former NBA player sheds ventures to focus on Shoot 360
June 19, 2025
Karina Elias

Shoot 360, a high-tech basketball facility in North Spokane, has emerged as a hub for athletes of all ages and is set to launch its first summer basketball clinic series. 


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Urbanova, Intent merge to form INW energy cluster

New entity hopes to establish Eastern Washington as a hub for innovation
June 19, 2025
Karina Elias

Two Spokane-based energy innovation groups, Urbanova, a nonprofit organization, and Intent, a tradename for Inland Northwest Center for Energy and Decarbonization LLC, have merged to launch a new energy innovation cluster backed by state funding. 


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BECU expands its presence in Spokane

Credit union approaches a decade in Inland Northwest, grows members, deposits
June 19, 2025
Karina Elias

Nearly a decade after opening its first Spokane branch, Boeing Employees’ Credit Union has expanded to a fourth location on Spokane's South Hill. 


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Ripple effects of federal grant delays hit Spokane’s nonprofits

Cuts to housing, childcare, Medicaid could send shockwaves throughout the region
June 19, 2025
Karina Elias

Nonprofit leaders across Spokane are bracing for the fallout of federal budget freezes, delayed grants, and looming funding cuts that could weaken essential services for thousands of residents in the region. 


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Latinos en Spokane envisions $10M community hub

Nonprofit aims to expand health, housing access in east central Spokane
June 5, 2025
Karina Elias

Latinos en Spokane is in the early stages of planning a $10 million cultural center and affordable housing project that will create flexible space for the organization’s growing programs and build over 40 housing units. 


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CarbonQuest enters food, beverage market

Company's technology will capture, liquefy, reuse CO2 on-site
June 5, 2025
Karina Elias

CarbonQuest has partnered with a Washington state beverage industry client, marking the company's first foray into the food and beverage industry. 


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What's Going on with: Cat Tales Wildlife Center

Organization shifts focus, with relocation remaining a long-term goal
June 5, 2025
Karina Elias

A year after unveiling a $146 million conceptual plan, Cat Tales Wildlife Center is shifting its focus to strengthening its nonprofit functions while still holding on to the vision of moving to a larger space. 


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