Spokane's downtown Restoration Hardware closes its doors at the end of business on April 16. Its location, at 714 W. Main, will be taken by outdoor outfitter North Face. North Face isn't expected to open its store until this summer, said a news release from…
Samaritan Ministries, a Christian ministry-based health plan, was ordered to cease operations in Washington on Friday by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler. The Illinois-based organization's "need-sharing" program is considered insurance under Washington law, he said, despite its unusual structure. Samaritan Ministries members pay monthly shares of…
The Washington Small Business Development Center (SBDC) has hired Katerina Korish as international trade specialist for the Spokane Export Center located on the Riverpoint Campus. Korish recently relocated to Spokane from Madison, Wisc., where she owned and ran a gourmet wholesale business that sourced and…
West Corp., which runs two large call centers in Spokane, has settled a class action suit filed on behalf of workers who said they were denied pay for 15 minutes of work at the start of each shift. Without acknowledging wrongdoing, the Omaha-based company said…