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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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Pickleboom: Explosion in pickleball's popularity leads to business opportunity

Vigil-led company to make sport clothing line; North Idaho manufacturer grows with trend

May 11, 2023

Karina Elias

The surge in pickleball popularity in the Inland Northwest has sparked growth in business ventures from entrepreneurs making sports gear and clothing for the sport's aficionados. Hayden-based Selkirk Sports, a pickleball focused company founded in

Boys & Girls Clubs expands center in Post Falls

$1.7M project to house culinary, STEM offerings

April 27, 2023

Karina Elias

Construction has started on 5,000-square-foot addition to Boys & Girls Clubs of Kootenai County's Jordan Johnson Clubhouse building, nearly doubling the size of the center, says Mark Kuhnhausen, executive director of the organization.

T.W. Clark Construction expands its scope into development

Company's current work includes rental project it also owns in Post Falls

April 27, 2023

Karina Elias

Steve Sunleaf, majority owner of T.W. Clark Construction LLC, says the next growth stage for the Spokane Valley construction company will be in its development of its own projects. The company currently is constructing the second project under its

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Healthy Competition: INW universities take steps to fill gaps in medical training

Some new training focuses on leadership in health care

April 27, 2023

Karina Elias

Citing needs to fill community health care and leadership gaps, Inland Northwest universities have launched a cluster of new certificate and degree programs in Spokane in recent months.

Parting Thoughts with bank executive Phyllis Campbell

April 27, 2023

Karina Elias

A half-century after starting her banking career in Spokane, Phyllis Campbell, 71, has retired from her last banking role as chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. for the financial services company's Seattle-based Pacific Northwest region.

Evergreen Bioscience envisions new bioscience building, sets sights on larger goals

New facility could cost up to $50M, house up to 500 employees

April 27, 2023

Karina Elias

A relatively young, recently formed, mostly volunteer group with big goals for the Spokane community is taking the first steps toward development of a new facility that would cost up to $50 million and have capacity for up to 500 workers.

Manito Garden focuses on affordable livability

HUD-subsidized senior housing project turns 40

April 13, 2023

Karina Elias

At Manito Garden Apartments, a facility for low-income seniors located at 500 E. 29th, the staff and property managers work together to provide and maintain an affordable place for residents to live.

Mercer to expand its plant in Valley

Timber products' company to add more space with $7.5M addition

April 13, 2023

Karina Elias

Spokane Valley-based Mercer Mass Timber LLC, a subsidiary of Vancouver, British Columbia-based Mercer International Inc., plans to construct a $7.5 million addition to its cross-laminated timber manufacturing facility, according to a building

Parting Thoughts with Spokane Media Federal Credit Union's Debie Keesee

April 13, 2023

Karina Elias

After 26 years as the CEO of Spokane Media Federal Credit Union, Debie Keesee will step down from her post, effective Friday, April 14. Keesee launched her career in the credit union industry in 1978 when she was 19 years old. She attended Eastern

Guidance on Washington's Capital Gains Tax

Levy may impact some business sales, highly appreciated stocks here

April 13, 2023

Karina Elias

Spokane financial advisers and accountants say they're somewhat surprised the Washington state Supreme Court upheld the state's new tax on certain capital gains, and they're renewing efforts to examine its effects on high-net worth clients, sales

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