Staff Report

Spokane-area job numbers fall

Unemployment rate holds steady

November 19, 2024

Total employment in the Spokane-Spokane Valley metropolitan statistical area fell by about 8,500 jobs in October compared with the year-earlier month.

Spokane MSA job total rises over year

Unemployment rate comes in at 4.7%

September 24, 2024

Staff Report

Total employment in the Spokane-Spokane Valley metropolitan statistical area increased by nearly 1,400 jobs in August, compared with the year earlier month.

URM Foods CEO to retire next year

Sprinkle to step down at 50-year career in grocery industry

July 8, 2024

Staff Report

URM Foods Inc. CEO Ray Sprinkle plans to retire in the summer of 2025, the Spokane-based, member-owned grocery distributor has announced.

Year-over-year employment ticks upward in Spokane MSA

Unemployment rate, however, rises to 6%

March 12, 2024

Staff Report

Total employment in the Spokane-Spokane Valley Metropolitan Statistical Area ticked upward by 1,700 jobs.

Spokane airport sets passenger-count record

With ongoing improvements, continued growth expected

March 1, 2024

Staff Report

Spokane International Airport saw a record number of air travelers in 2023.

The Journal's View: Once again, a moratorium isn't the answer in Latah Valley

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October 12, 2023

Staff Report

A second moratorium on housing development in southwest Spokane might make for a nice campaign promise to those in that neighborhood, but it would do little to address growing pains along the U.S. 195 corridor. What such an extreme measure would do is

Hecla to shut down Lucky Friday for rest of year

Move to enable mining company to make modifications following fire

September 18, 2023

Staff Report

Hecla Mining Co. expects to suspend production at its Lucky Friday Mine for the rest of the year as it makes modifications following a mine-shaft fire.

The Journal's View: Politics should be put aside to address homelessness

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September 14, 2023

Staff Report

A regional approach to addressing homelessness remains the best path forward for helping the Spokane area's most vulnerable people. Elected leaders must put political ideologies and partisan influences aside to find ways to work together to make the

2023 Journal of Business Rising Stars

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September 14, 2023

Staff Report

The Journal's View: While not heroes, businesses play big role in wildfire relief

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August 31, 2023

Staff Report

While firefighters, law enforcement, health care professionals, and countless volunteers are the true heroes in a time of crisis, the Spokane business community deserves recognition-unsought as it might be-for stepping up in a big way following the