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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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Chicana Esthetics caters to multicultural skin

Studio owner: Diverse clients need specialized cosmetic treatments

March 2, 2023

Karina Elias

Chicana Esthetics LLC has seen strong growth in its number of clients since launching in November as a cosmetic skin studio focused on skin health issues for people of Native American, Asian, African American, and Latino backgrounds.

Parting Thoughts with John and Ken Towner, of Towners Conoco

March 2, 2023

Karina Elias

Brothers John and Ken Towner retired late last year after selling the family's 55-year-old business, Towner's Conoco gas station, located at 1906 N. Ash in Spokane's West Central neighborhood. The new owner is local businessman, Avtar Brar, who runs

Residents lead activities at Affinity at Mirabeau

Amenities include travel program, trails, movie theater, pub

February 16, 2023

Karina Elias

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

Fig. 1 Patents law firm adds pharmaceutical division

Firms gains materials, chemistry, medical devices expertise

February 16, 2023

Karina Elias

Fig. 1 Patents PLLC, a Spokane-based patent preparation law firm, is expanding its expertise into pharmaceuticals with the hiring of Scott Chapple. Chapple says he started working at Fig. 1 on Jan. 29.

Meet & Greet with Vera Water & Power's Jim Fields

February 16, 2023

Karina Elias

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.

Remote Possibilities: INW tech firms recruit workers laid off in other markets

More highly skilled applicants surface in current environment, employers say

February 16, 2023

Karina Elias

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 ramps up as customers leave China

Contract manufacturer hires 500 in Mexico, projects higher sales

February 16, 2023

Karina Elias

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

Tahoe Network acquires Wisconsin Internet provider

Spokane-based broadband company to invest $10M in new Midwest markets

February 2, 2023

Karina Elias

Spokane based-Tahoe Network Infrastructure LLC, a fiber optic investment company focused on providing broadband internet service to underserved communities, has acquired E-Vergent, a Wisconsin regional fiber and fixed wireless provider, for $11.2 million.

Credit union CEOs lead during era of growth

Once-small financial organizations emerge as business community leaders in the INW

February 2, 2023

Karina Elias

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

Meet & Greet with HSSA's Erin Williams Hueter

February 2, 2023

Karina Elias

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.

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