For its Economic Outlook episode of Elevating The Conversation, the Journal sat down with Vange Hochheimer, economics and finance professor at Whitworth University and CEO and chief economist at Grand Fir Analytics.

Spokane International Airport has opened its first restaurant in a series of Inland Northwest-based establishments that are planned to operate in the airport's expanded Concourse C gate area in the next year.

Latinos en Spokane, a nonprofit serving the Latino community, has continued to grow despite funding cuts and the country’s current immigration climate, in which the organization’s constituents are being targeted, says Executive Director Jennyfer Mesa.